October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
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CONTENTS : Vol. LXXVII., No. 15 .Series No. 1602).
[Tbe folios in this List and in the Summary are those at the top
of the pages, but references in the Text are to the Index
folios at the bottom of the pages.]
PAGE
Association Presidents ... 42 [
Bankruptcy Report 39 [
Birth 40
Business Changes 46
Coming Events ...Col. Supp.
Contracts 37 I
Correspondence 66
Deaths 40
Deeds of Arrangement ... 40
Editorial Articles :
Bonded Warehouses ... 48
• Opening of the Session 49
Essential Oils 49
Notes 50
English and Welsh News 34
French News 36
Gazette 40
German Letter 65
Information Department 46 ;
Irish News 35 [
Legal Reports 38
Marriages 40
Medical Exhibition 44
New Companies and Com-
pany News 41
Observations and Reflec-
tions 47
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Personalities 42
Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain :
Council Meeting 52
Opening of the Session 54
Portrait Presentation . 58
Minor Examinations ... 46
Pharmaceutical Society
of Ireland 59
Poisonings 50
Prescription Problem ... 60
Retrospect 68
Scots News 36
South African News 37
Trade-marks Applied For
Col. Sajip.
Trade Notes 41
Trade Report 61
Will 40
Winter Session of
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Opticians 42
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London ; Western ;
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Summary of this Issue.
The more notable items only are dealt with.
Articles and Communications.
For " whether " in reply to " Herb " on p. 67 read " where."
Concise notes on the goods shown at the Medical Exhibition
held in London this week begin on p. 44.
Is the Minor worth the trouble ? The yea and nay of the
matter are given by correspondents on p. 66.
. " Xrayser II." gives notes in regard to the words in " T "
in the new part of the Oxford English Dictionary " (p. 47).
The Board of Customs and Excise have decided to have
periodic revision of the conditions for bonded warehousing
(P- 48).
The Ehrlich-Hata " 606 " remedy for svphilis is creating
dissension in German medical circles (p. 65). Our Paris
correspondent informs us that it was discussed at the Academy
on Monday.
In an article on essential oils which begins on p. 50, we
contrast Messrs. Hill and Umney's figures with those of the
French, Swiss, and United States Pharmacopoeias. The
factors are embraced in a table on p. 51.
The Week's News.
An East-end drug-store keeper has been fined under the
Merchandise-marks Act for selling spurious Beecham's pills
(p. 38).
An Exhibition of goods specially concerning medical men
is being held in London this week. We mention (pp. 44-46)
some of the exhibits most likely to be interesting to phar-
macists.
A portrait of Mr. Walter Hills was presented to him at
17 Bloomsbury Square on Wednesday afternoon, and he asked
the President of the Pharmaceutical Society to accept it for
the Council-chamber (p. 59).
The winter session of Chemists' Associations has begun in
earnest. We report fully half a dozen opening meetings,
beginning on p. 42 with a portrait of Mr Procter, President of
the Western Pharmacists' Association of London.
Mr. David Howard, F.I.C., F.C.S., delivered the inaugural
address at the reopening of the School of Pharmacy, Blooms-
bury Square, on Wednesday. It was characteristic, epi-
grammatic, and most enjoyable. We give a verbatim report
of it on p. 55.
Partnership in Scotland is provided for like companies in
the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908. A drug-store keeper
in Aberdeen, who was summoned for selling poisons, failed
to convince the Sheriff that he was in partnership with a
printer's reader (p. 38).
At the annual meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Ireland, Mr. Smith (the President) delivered an address
showing that the Society is progressing. Mr. Beggs (the
Treasurer) confirmed this as regards the accounts. Retiring
members of Council were re-elected (p. 59).
The Pharmaceutical Council-meeting on Wednesday was de-
voted to routine business. The Treasurer stated that the
finances of the Society are good at present. Mr. Edmund
White and Mr. E. S. Peck, in their report on the Congress at
Brussels, had a paragraph which awakened the ire of Mr.
Gifford, and there was a brisk breeze about. Mr. White took
the blame (p. 52).
Trade and Market Matters.
Price-alterations are numerous this week, the principal
including an advance in bromides, cocaine, Sumatra benzoin,
cream of tartar, menthol, and Mogador orris. Easier and
lower items include English refined camphor, chamomiles,
chrvsarobin, castor oil, valerian, rhatany, and quicksilver
(p. 61).
FORMULAS FOR REMEDIES.
We propose to reserve space in The Chemists' and Druggists'
Diary, 1911, for formulas of remedies which our subscribers
desire to bring within the exemption from stamp-duty ex-
tended to known, admitted, and approved remedies. The
C. <£- D. Diary was the first publication recognised by the
Revenue authorities for the purpose of exemption (July 20,
1903). Each formula sent to us for printing should be written
on a piece of paper by itself, the quantities being in apothe-
caries' signs, and the shop stamp or label of the sender should
be placed on the back.
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English and Welsh News.
When sending Newspapers containing: Trade news to the Editor
please mark the items.
Brevities.
The Bermondsey analyst has examined recently nine
drug-samples, all of which were genuine.
The Society of Apothecaries will attend Divine service
at the church of St. Andrew-by-the- Wardrobe on October 18.
The Stepney analyst has returned all the nineteen
drug samples which he has examined recently as genuine.
The Executive of the British Pharmaceutical Conference
met on Wednesday afternoon, October 5, after the prize dis-
tribution at Bloomsbury Square.
The Rochdale Bench have transferred the medicated-
wine licence attached to the business carried on at
269 Drake Street by Mr. Geo. Crabtree Howarth to Mr.
Geo. Hardcastle Wild.
Mr. E. C. Horton, London representative for Messrs.
Butler & Crispe, 82 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.G., came
in third in the recent London-to-Brighton walk of the
Surrey Walking Club, with a time of 8 hours 42 minutes
6 seconds.
Ten Margate chemists have announced that their estab-
lishments will be closed during October and April at 5 p.m.
on Thursdays and at 8.30 p.m. on other days, except
Saturdays ; and during November to March, inclusive, at
2 P.M. on Thursdays and at 8 p.m. on other days, except
Saturdays.
The memorial which has been sent to the Finance Com-
mittee of the Liverpool Corporation objecting to the pro-
visions of the Shops (No. 2) Bill, which requires simul-
taneous closing on one half-day each week, has been signed
by 1,294 tradesmen and ratepayers of the city, who repre-
sent 1,418 shops and businesses.
A fire was caused at the Furthergate Chemical-works,
Blackburn, of Messrs. Hardman & Holden, Ltd., on Sep-
tember 28, owing to some tar coming in contact with the
fire during the process of distillation. A wooden shed and
engine-house were badly damaged, and about twenty
barrels of oil were practically destroyed.
A new branch of the Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary
was opened on the North Boulevard, Hull, on Septem-
ber 30. The new building cost 1,000Z. The Chairman of
the Management Board gave some details of the work of
the two dispensaries open last year. 14,500 recommenda-
tions were used, and 132,375 people obtained medicine or
advice.
An application from the Southwark public analyst
{Mr. C. Dickinson, B.Sc, F.I.C.) to be allowed to analyse
samples for his friends in his own time and in his own
laborator}' has been granted, subject to each specific sample
being first submitted for the consideration of the Public
Health Committee. A similar concession was made to the
applicant's predecessor.
Sir Bubert Boyce, who has just returned from West
Africa, addressed a meeting of the African Trades Section
of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, on October 3, on
the question of yellow fever in West Africa. Sir Rubert
stated that this trouble is endemic to that region, and for
years it has been mistaken for malaria. He considered
that yellow fever has not been absent from Sierra Leone
since 1806.
At a meeting of the Wallasey Ratepayers' Association
an inquiry was made as to the reasons for the local Council
discontinuing the use of disinfectants for refuse-bins. A
member of the local Council explained that the use of
disinfectants had also been discontinued on the roads and
ferry-boats, because the medical officer, who was an
expert on disinfectants, considered the practice was abso-
lutely useless.
At the local Revision Court on September 26, the claim
for a vote of Mr. G. B. Daniel, chemist and druggist,
son of Mr. George Daniel, 272 High Road, Wood Green,
London, N., was disallowed on the ground that he does
not pay rent directly. Mr. Daniel, senior, stated that his
son occupied a bedroom which, if he did not use, would
not be occupied at all. Although he paid nothing for the
room actually, he had it in lieu of money. The decision
is an important one, as it will affect all employers whose
sons act as assistants and live on the premises.
Importation of Denatured Tobacco.
At the meeting of the International Fruit-growers'
Federation, held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, West-
minster, on October 3, reference was made to the Federa-
tion's agitation to induce the Government to allow de-
natured tobacco to come into the country free of duty for
the purpose of manufacturing nicotine or insecticides for
the use of fruit-growers. It was stated that crude
nicotine can be made from denatured tobacco at 5s. per lb.,
but as at present manufacturers may use only waste
tobacco in bonded warehouses, and the supply is inade-
quate, the price has been forced up to 17s. per lb. It was
decided to ask the Board of Agriculture if there are any
hopes of the matter being dealt with in the Finance Bill.
About Hadium, Niton, and Solar Hays.
Sir William Ramsay delivered the first of a series of
chemistry lectures at University College, London, on
Monday. Only about fifty students were present, of whom
some were Japanese, Indian, and German, and some young
ladies. In the course of his lecture Sir W. Ramsay said
that it was necessary, owing to the enormous cost of
radium — about 420,0002. per oz. — to work with microscopic
quantities of the substance. It has now been discovered
that the gases given off were not merely mysterious "in-
fluences" or "emanations," and that they contained a
new element which had been named niton. Its existence
would never have been suspected but for the discovery of
radium. There were still blanks to be filled up. During
the lecture Sir William Ramsay called attention to the
fact that the concentration of the sun's rays through a
water-bottle which stood on the table had set the table
alight. He said that it might explain the origin of some
mysterious fires. The woodwork was charred and the
flames and smoke became visible across the lecture-room.
An attendant extinguished the fire.
Early Closing.
A letter from the Secretary of the West Ham Association
of Pharmacists and one from the Home Secretary came
before the Leyton Urban District Council at their iast meet-
ing. The former communication suggested that the Closing
Order relating to chemists' shops should be amended by
the insertion of the following article : — ■
A shop to which this Closing Order applies may be kept
open after the closing hour, only on the terms and under
the conditions : (a) That effective means be used to prevent
any person entering the shop until it has been ascertained
by the occupier or occupier's agent that it is for the pur-
pose of being supplied with medicine or medical or surgical
appliance, or for other legitimate purpose; and (5) that no
artificial light pertaining to the shop, which light is con-
spicuously visible from the public roadway, be shown un-
necessarily or for the purpose of attracting the public.
The letter from the Home Secretary, which enclosed a
copy addressed to the Secretary of the Association, was
in reference to the proposed amendment. It was inti-
mated that, although the desirability of means being
taken for making the enforcement of Closing Orders
effectual is fully appreciated, the Home Secretary thinks
there would be difficulties in the way of imposing the
conditions suggested. The Council decided to take no
action in the matter.
Poison-licences .
A poison-licence has been applied for by Jane Vaughan,
of the Green Shop, Llangedwyn, near Oswestry.
The Chorley Town Council renewed the poison-licence of
Mr. J. W. Stone, grocer and seedsman, 6 Market Street,
Chorley, on September 28.
At a meeting held on September 30, the Hull Corpora-
tion's Sanitary Committee decided by ten votes to three
to issue licences to Messrs. E. P. Dixon & Sons, Ltd.,
and D. Toyne & Sons. During the discussion, Dr. Lilley
said the chemists already met the reasonable requirements
of the public, and the Chairman of the Committee sup-
ported him. Councillor Watson said of the two deputa-
tions he believed that the seedsmen had the better case,
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■while Dr. Robinson said the sale had been in the hands
of the seedsmen for years, and that they ought to keep
it. Dr. Lilley said the inquiry by the seedsmen's solicitor
was not all it should have been, since the chemist could
not stock all the different articles that had been asked for.
[The solicitor had reported that his attempt to obtain
supplies of insecticides from twelve local pharmacists
established beyond doubt that the seedsmen were the
tradesmen to whom the public applied for them, since they
did not stock several articles he asked for, and even
recommended him in some instances to apply to seeds-
men for them.]
Birmingham Notes.
Mr. and Mrs. Barron Cadbury, the latter a daughter of
Mr. Alfred Southall, F.C.S., have presented an open-air
school for seventy children at Uffculme, King's Heath,
to the City of Birmingham Education Committee.
Mr. Wilfred F. Southall, of Messrs. Southall Bros. &
Barclay, Ltd., gave an interesting address on some impres-
sions of the Holy Land, obtained during a recent visit, at
the first sessional meeting of the Birmingham Branch of the
Commercial Travellers' Christian Association on October 1
The lecturer was heartily thanked for his instructive
address.
At the conversazione of the Medical Faculty of Bir-
mingham University, held October 3, an interesting pro-
gramme was gone through after the reception, which
included exhibitions of drugs and appliances, including
radium, solid carbon dioxide, and the " No. 606 " remedy
by Messrs. Southall, under the personal direction of Mr.
E. C. Benison. Messrs. Philip Harris & Co. also showed
the carbon-dioxide snow and other apparatus, as well as
pharmaceutical preparations and bacteriological requisites.
Messrs. Salt & Son and Messrs. Anderson & Dodds both
had interesting general exhibits of surgical instruments.
The large attendance included a notable sprinkling of
pharmacists and some pharmacist-physicians.
Boots, Ltd., are making a big display of a cheap vacuum
flask, one in section showing its construction. Another
window is filled with a new kind of tooth-powder and other
preparations for the teeth.
Window-dressing Competitions.
The competitors in the shop-window dressing competition
in connection with the Canterbury Shopping Festival in-
clude Mr. A. Lander, Ph.C, High Street, and Messrs.
Walker & Harris, chemists, Sun Street.
Accrington chemists are taking part in the Shopping
Festival which commenced on October 1. Councillor W. R.
Cameron, chemist and druggist, is the pharmacists' repre-
sentative on the General and " Things to Use " Committees.
The following connected with the retail drug-trade in
Bury are among the 230 entrants in the window-dressing
■competition in connection with the local Shopping Festival :
Messrs. A. W. Chamley, J. C. Croasdale, Clement Cromp-
ton, W. Crompton, W. Mitchell, and Waller & Riley, Ltd.
Nottingham Notes.
Sir Jesse Boot is to be asked to become the first presi-
dent of the Nottingham Shorthand-writers' Association,
the first meeting of which was held on September 30.
Nottingham Thursday United Football Club, which in-
cludes a strong pharmaceutical contingent, continued their
series of victories by beating Bui well Thursday Villa F.C.
by one goal to none on September 29.
At a meeting of 125 midwives. held in the Exchange Hall.
Nottingham, it was decided to form an association in
affiliation with the Midwives' Institute. Fifty-one mid-
wives gave in their names for enrolment.
Administration of Anaesthetics in Teeth Extraction.
During the inquiry at Haydock, Cheshire, on October 4,
into the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke, Robert A.
Dickinson, of St. Helens, said he was formerly a clerk,
but for the last eighteen months he had been extracting
teeth on behalf of his employer, Mr. Patterson, dentist,
Bolton. In the case of Mrs. Clarke he administered
eucaine as an anaesthetic.
The Coroner (Mr. Brighouse) : Do you know what
eucaine is? -Witness : It is the same as cocaine, but has
not got the injurious qualities that cocaine has. Further
than that witness could not say. — Do you consider you
are quite qualified to form a correct opinion as to whether
a person should have an anaesthetic or not ? Yes. — And
you think you are perfectly capable of administering
it? Yes. — The Coroner, after the verdict had been
given, suggested to Mr. Patterson that if he employed
people to abstract teeth who had only eighteen months'
experience he must not be surprised if they got into
trouble. — The jury's verdict did not throw any of the
responsibility of death upon the anaesthetic.
Football.
A team representative of Messrs. Thomas Christy &
Co. beat the British Drug House F.C, in a match played
at Walthamstow on October 1, by five goals to nil.
In the Courts.
At Exeter Police Court on October 1, Mr. William
Forward Pearce, chemist and druggist, 19 South Street,
Exeter, was fined 5s., and costs, for selling explosives —
namely crackers — to a boy under thirteen.
At the Tower Bridge Police Court on October 4, the
four prisoners connected with the theft of saccharin
(C. & D., October 1, p. 502) were committed for trial to the
Central Criminal Court. Accused, who pleaded not guilty,
reserved their defence.
At the monthly Petty Sessions held at Llanfihangel-ar-
Arth on September 28, David Morgan Davies, described
as a chemist, Llanybyther, denied having sold wine in
an unauthorised place on August 2. The case was ad-
journed, a constable stating that, in view of a statement
by accused that he would plead guilty, he had accordingly
not subpoenaed a witness.
At the Marylebone Police Court on September 30, Mile.
Laurent, a former directress of the Home for French
Governesses, asked the Magistrate's permission to withdraw
the charge against Mme. Bertot, the present directress,
of sending to her by post sweets which Mr. C. E. Sage,
F.I.C., Ph.C, found to be impregnated with mercuric
chloride solution [C. <b D., July 30, p. 135). The Magis-
trate (Mr. Paul Taylor) said he saw no objection to the
withdrawal, which, on the contrary, seemed a very happy
termination of the matter.
At the Swansea County Court on October 4, before
Judge Bryn Roberts, the hearing was concluded of a claim
brought by Mr. Myrddin Davies, chemist, Oxford Street,
Swansea, to' recover from Mr. Adams Morris, commercial
traveller, Swansea, 81. 5s. rent for the storage of a
motor-car from 1906 to January 1910. There was a
counterclaim for 501. in respect of alleged loss of tools,
damage to the car, etc. Plaintiff, in addition to his
chemist's business, carried on with his son the Central
Motor Garage and Electrical Engineering Co., and
the defendant stored with him a " Gladiator " motor-car.
His Honour, after a protracted hearing, found for the
plaintiff on the claim, and gave defendant four guineas
on the counterclaim for the user of the car.
Irish News.
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please mark the items.
Drug-supplies.
Messrs. Bonnar & Henderson, druggists, Wellington
Street, Ballymena, have been awarded the contracts for
candles, soft soap, jams (Irish manufacture), and salt by
the Ballymena Board of Guardians.
An appeal was made at the Belfast Board of Guardians
for the provision of an ounce of tobacco per week for the
workmen at the Sanatorium, and when the Chairman
asked who would pay for it, Mr. J. T. Hall replied that
it could be given as medicine, and the Local Government
Board would then pay for it. Needless to add, this sug-
gestion was not acted on.
The question of medicine empties cropped up last week
again at a meeting of the Granard Board of Guardians, to
whom Messrs. John Clarke & Co. are the contractors.
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The firm had written about the returning of empties, and
a Guardian said they should pay for the packing of them,
while the Clerk remarked that he was not going to transact
Messrs. Clarke's business, this remark being in connection
with the naming of a carrier to take the empties.
At the meeting of the Cork Guardians last week the
Chairman (Mr. M. McDonnell) protested against the
action of the Local Government Board in refusing to
sanction the tender of the Cork Chemical and Drug Co.
for medicines on the ground of a small difference in cost.
It was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the
Members of Parliament for the city, in the hope that the
Secretary for Ireland would be approached.
Brevities.
The staff of Messrs. Hugh Moore & Alexanders, Ltd.,
wholesale druggists, The Linen Hall, Dublin, made Mr.
E. A. Fisher a handsome presentation prior to his departure
for Canada.
At a meeting of the Belfast Corporation on October 3,
the Police Committee reported that they had received an
application from Mr. Thomas H. Shaw, 100 High Street,
for a licence under the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908,
and the Town Clerk was authorised to issue the licence,
provided the report from the police authorities was satis-
factory.
Mr. D. W. Elliott, M.P.S.I., Shaftesbury Square, Bel-
fast, has been elected as Vice-President of the newly
formed Belfast Unionist Municipal Association, and of the
Belfast Y.M.C.A. Camera Club. Mr. A. R. Hogg, a
member of the Chemists' and Druggists' Society of Ire-
land, has also been appointed a Vice-President of the
latter organisation.
The negotiations between Messrs. Wm. Dobbin & Co.,
Ltd.. chemists and druggists, North Street, and the Cor-
poration regarding the extension of their premises and the
widening of the street are still unsettled. During the
month Messrs. Dobbin's solicitor wrote stating that,
failing the plans being passed without delay, his clients
would, without further notice, apply for a mandamus to
compel the Corporation to pass them. The town solicitor
conferred with Messrs. Dobbin's solicitor afterwards, but
failed to come to an arrangement; and on October 3 the
Council passed a resolution instructing the Law Com-
mittee to proceed by arbitration under the powers con-
tained in the Local Acts to acquire the ground necessary
for widening North Street at Messrs. Dobbin's property.
Scots News.
When sending Newspapers containing: Trade news to the Editor
please mark the items.
Edinburgh.
Edinburgh and district have attracted a large number
of visitors during the past week or so. The Second Battle
Squadron has been lying off Queensferry, and the Second
Torpedo Flotilla outside Granton Harbour ; while the
race-meeting at Musselburgh was also responsible for the
usual influx of strangers.
At a meeting of the British Hospitals Association Con-
ference held in Glasgow on Friday, September 30, Coun-
cillor Macpherson, Edinburgh, spoke of cases within his
own knowledge in which people came from houses of 60Z.
to 1001. rental to occupy beds in Edinburgh Royal In-
firmary. He stated that such conduct was not only selfish,
but scandalous.
Edinburgh Chemists' Golf Club.
The closing match of the season was held over Cramond
Brig Golf Course between teams chosen by the Captain and
Hon. Secretary, and resulted in a draw. The autumn com-
petition was held over Kinghorn Golf Course, when the
prize-winners were E. Steven, A. J. Clark, and (a tie) D. S.
Philp and A. Seth. The "Gibson" Aggregate Medal has
resulted in a tie between Messrs. Alf. Kearney and Chas.
Stewart.
Glasgow and the West.
The annual award of the Kinninmont Gold Medal, com-
memorating the life-work of. the late Mr. Alexander
Kinninmont, pharmaceutical chemist, Glasgow, will shortly
be made. The applications of students of pharmacy in
respect to the matter should be addressed to Mr. W. L.
Currie, 223 Byres Road, Glasgow.
October has opened well for business. Dispensing in
city pharmacies is heavier than it has been for several
months, and with increasing trade in general the public
seem more ready to purchase toilet luxuries, etc. The
leading window- displays consist of cod-liver oil and malt
extract and allied preparations, while the indiarubber hot-
water bottle is invariably present.
The estates of Christie Bros., wholesale chemists,
11 Dundas Street, Glasgow, and Andrew Christie, a partner,
were sequestrated on September 29, and a meeting of the
creditors to elect the trustee and commissioners is to be
held at the Faculty Hall, St. George's Place, Glasgow, on
October 12, at 12 o'clock. A composition may be offered
at this meeting, and to entitle creditors to the first dividend
their oaths and grounds of debt must be lodged on or before
January 29, 1911. Messrs. Rosslyn, Mitchell & Ruther-
ford, 157 West George Street, Glasgow, are agents.
At a meeting of the Dumbarton County Council on
October 3, Mr. Alexander Wylie moved that the Council
take steps to impress upon the Government the urgent
necessity for amending the Food and Drugs Acts so as
to include restrictions on the trade in secret remedies.
The motion was unanimously carried and it was decided to
communicate it to the Local Government Board and the
County Councils' Association. In submitting his motion
Mr. Wvlie said that patent medicines are inflicting a great
amount of injury to the health, life and morals of the
community, and in support of his statements he mentioned
what the " British Medical Journal" ("Association," he
said) is doing in the way of analysing popular proprie-
taries.
" The Glasgow Herald" of October 4 devoted a column
to a talk between a la-de-dah customer and a chemist's
assistant about the medicine that the customer wanted " for
something in the head with an 'itis." The end of it is
sufficient for us to quote :
" Wong again. I say, what a lot of silly things you keep
heah. Do people use 'em all?"
"Sometimes. Salol?"
" That's the fellow ! Knew it as soon as you mentioned
him. Do me up a few bottles of that, will you? Thought
we should get at the stuff with a bit of tact. Useful thing,
tact ; eh ? " . . . ,,
" But Salol would never be used for peridentitis.
" Milly said Salol, I sweah."
"Well, it cannot be peridentitis, sir. Must be liver com-
plaint."
" By Jove, that's it ! Milly didn't want me to talk about —
about things like that — to a stwanjah. That was clevah, I
don't think. . . . By Jove, what tact ! Eh, what? One and-
nine ? Thanks."
French News.
(From the " C. & D." Correspondent.)
Dr. Masson, the pharmacist inspector of the French
army, was recently placed on the retired list. His subordi-
nates organised a meeting with the object of taking public
and individual leave of their respected chief. Principal
Pharmacist Roeser bid him good-bye and God-speed in the
name of all his comrades. Dr. Masson suitably replied,
and touched on military pharmacy and its recent history.
Artificial Mineral- waters. — In the Preface to the
French Codex of 1884 the compilers stated that their inten-
tion was to suppress the denominations of artificial mineral-
waters, merely retaining the formula? as solutions. As a
matter of fact, pharmacists continued to sell packets of salts
bearing the names of mineral springs. But the Seine
Tribunal recently decided that to thus apply the name of
a spring to an artificial product was illegal. Should this
decision be maintained, pharmacists will have to be careful
not to sell under the name of a spring any powder, "etc., not
produced in the locality in question.
Explosion in a Pharmacy. — M. Guillaud's pharmacy in
the Cours Lafayette, Lyons, has recently been the scene of
a terrible, and it is feared fatal, explosion. M. Maurice
Chambost, a young married assistant employed at the
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37
** Pharmacy Prince," as M. Guillaud's establishment is
usually called, was pounding chlorate of potash for the
purpose of making tooth-powder, when he made a false
(movement and overbalanced the mortar. It fell to the
ground, and a violent explosion followed. The bench on
which the mortar had been placed was badly damaged, the
glass blown out of the shop-front, and a large number of
glass jars and bottles broken. The thick smoke which
issued from the shop gave rise to a belief that a fire had
.broken out, and the firemen were quickly at hand, to find
M. Chambost lying on the ground, losing blood from several
-wounds, his clothes torn, and his watch bent out of shape,
first-aid having been given, he was removed to a hospital,
•where he lies in a critical condition, peritonitis being feared.
South African News.
" The Chemist and Druggist " is regularly supplied by order
to all the members of the seven Societies and Associations of
Chemists in business in British South Africa.
Cape Colony.
Arson Charge. — At Simonstown on August 31, the
.acting Magistrate, having heard further evidence in the
case in which Mr. C. Richards, chemist, Kalk Bay, is
charged with arson, formally committed the accused for
trial, the amount of bail being reduced to 251.
Orange Free State.
Medical and Pharmacy Council. — The ordinary monthly
meeting of the Council was held on September 9. The
following members were present : Dr. Ward (President),
Drs. Bidwell, Manning, Swift, and Pratt-Yule, Mr. Red-
path (dental member), and Mr. Jeffreys (one of the pharma-
ceutical members). The Board of Examiners appointed
for the Chemists and Druggists' examination held on
August 24 and 25 reported that both the candidates had
failed. The Secretary was instructed to inform the candi-
dates in what subjects they had failed to satisfy the
examiners, both having succeeded in obtaining the neces-
sary total aggregate. The Board further recommended
the Council to arrange, if possible, for the examination in
practical pharmacy and dispensing to be taken first on
future occasions, with a view to allowing the candidates
to do themselves justice in this the most important subject
of the examination. A suggestion was also brought for-
ward at the instance of Mr. Lyle, one of the examiners,
that the Board of Examiners should be given power to allow
candidates to take the examination in two parts in view
of the want of facilities for study afforded in the Free
State. Consideration of the resolution and the suggestion
were postponed with a view to the pharmaceutical members
•of the Council making themselves au fait with the question.
Dr. Manning, one of the examiners in prescriptions,
pointed out that one of the candidates at this examination
had complained to him regarding the inconvenience caused
by the candidates having in specified instances had to
search for the appliances necessary for the conducting of
the examination, instead of those appliances being ready
for use in the examination room, thereby causing a certain
loss of time out of that allotted them. After further dis-
cussion it was decided that the Secretary should, when
further examinations took place, ascertain a fortnight
before the examination that the various apparatus, utensils,
etc., were placed in the examination room for the con-
venience of those to be examined. Before any steps, how-
ever, could be taken by the Council it was decided that
Dr. Manning and Mr. Westlake, one of the examiners in
pharmacy and dispensing, should make further inquiries
regarding the allegation made and report to the Council. —
The following registration was approved : Joseph Michael
Sanford (chemist and druggist, Great Britain, 1890) as a
chemist and druggist. (Present address, c/o Messrs. C. E.
Gardner & Co., St. Andrew's Street, Bloemfontein.)
Transvaal.
Business Change. — Mr. John Sachs, pharmaceutical and
manufacturing chemist, Pretoria, has acquired the Pretoria
Drug Co., one of the oldest-established pharmacies in the
Transvaal.
Contracts.
The following contracts have been settled since our last
report :
Epsom Guardians.— Bleasdale, Ltd., York, for the supply
of drugs.
Reigate Guardians.— Mr. W. H. Fowler, Ph.C, Reigate,
for drugs.
Chesterton Guardians.— Mr. R. W. Moden, Chesterton, for
disinfectants.
Southampton Guardians.— W. Bates & Co., Ltd., chemists,
Southampton, for drugs.
Nottingham Union.— Mr. Samborne Cook, chemist and
druggist, for drugs, etc.
Scarborough Guardians.— Armour & Co., Ltd., for Vigoral
(4 oz.), at Is. 6d. per bottle.
Grantham Guardians.— Mr. H. Hopkinson, pharmacist,
Grantham, chemist's goods.
Bury St. Edmunds Guardians.— Nunn, Hinnell & Clark,
chemists, Bury, for drugs, etc.
Camberwell Guardians.— North British Rubber Co., for
four water-beds at 4s. 9d. per lb.
Romsey Guardians.— Mr. J. E. Frost, chemist, Romsey,
for drugs, surgical dressings, etc.
Belper Guardians. — Calvert & Son, chemists, Belper, for
the three months' supply of drugs.
Peterborough Guardians.— Mr. T. J. Calcutt, chemist,
Peterborough, for the drug-supply.
Stoke-on-Trent Board of Guardians. — Mr. T. C. Cornwell,
Ph.C, Hanley, for the drug-supply.
East Grinstead Guardians. — H. S. Martin, Ltd., chemists,
East Grinstead, for hospital requisites.
Brentford Guardians. — Middleton Bros., for disinfectants
during the next six months, at 102/. 18s.
Blandford Guardians. — Groves & Hall, chemists, Blandford,
for drugs during the ensuing six months.
Chester Guardians. — Mr. J. W. Huke, chemist, Chester, for
the six months' supply of drugs, at 44/. 10s.
Aberystwyth Guardians. — Mr. E. P. Wynne, chemist,
Aberystwyth, for the supply of disinfectants.
Wrexham Guardians. — Francis & Co., chemists, Wrexham,
for the six months' supply of drugs, at 21/. 5s.
Faversham Guardians. — Mr. J. T. T. Rolfe, pharmacist,
Faversham, appointed chemist for six months.
Hemsworth Guardians. — Mr. G. Hodgson, chemist and
druggist, Hemsworth, for drugs and disinfectants.
Faversham Rural District Council. — Stedman & Coldwell,
chemists, Teynham, Kent, appointed chemists for six months.
Lancaster Guardians. — Mr. Win. Arkle, chemist, Lancaster,
for the supply of drugs to the workhouse during the next
half-year.
Essex Education Committee. — For spectacles : Spherical
glasses at Is. 8d. per pair ; plain cylinders at 2s. Ad. per pair ;
sphero cylinders at 3s. bd. per pair net.
Bath Guardians.— Corbyn, Stacey & Co., London, for the
supply of drugs; Boots, Ltd., for waterproof sheeting;
Appleby & Co., chemists, Bath, for drugs urgently needed.
Wolverhampton Guardians.— Mr. W. G. Taylor, for surgical
dressings, at 72/. 16s. l0(Z. ; Corbyn, Stacey & Co., Ltd., for
the drug-supply to the workhouse, at 48/. Is. 3fc/., and for the
out-relief dispensary, at 33/. 0s. 10a<Z.
Admiralty.— John Richardson & Co., Leicester, Ltd., for
the supply of drugs and medicines to the Navy for a further
period of three years from January 1911. Messrs. Richardson
& Co. have held the contract without a break since 1893.
Brentford Guardians.— For half-yearly supplies : Victoria
Rubber Co., Edinburgh, for waterproof sheeting, at
52/. Is. 8tZ. ; Middleton Bros., for disinfectants, at 102/. Is. 8(2. ;
A. E. Moore, Brentford, for meat-extract, at 266/. 5s. ; York
Mineral Water Co., Brentford, for mineral waters, at
37/. 12s. bd.
Tiverton (Devon) Union.— Mr. T. E. Rossiter, chemist and
druggist, Tiverton, for combs, at Is. 6cZ. to 4s. bd. doz. ;
disinfecting-fluid, 3s. gal.: elastic stockings, 3s. each; fly-
papers, 5s. 4i<7. gross ; fullers' earth, 2d. lb. ; hair-brushes,
from 9<Z. each ; insect-powder, 2s. Ad. lb. ; chloride of lime,
2{d. lb.; linseed oil, 3s. M. gal.; cod-liver oil, Is. Id. pint;
flask oil, 10s. bd. case: Sanitas oil, 5s. M. ± gal.; coal-tar
soap, lOrZ. lb. : glycerin-soap, 2(Z. lb. ; bay-salt, 9£cZ. 7 lb. ;
soda-water. 3s. bd. doz. : spirits of turpentine, 4s. gal. ; trusses,
Is. 9d. single, 2s. 3<Z. double ; whiting, b^d. per 14 lb.
How Diamonds were Made. — Sir William Crookes, in his
book on diamonds, discussing their genesis, is clearly of
opinion that, whether of inter-terrestrial or of extra-terrestrial
origin, the conclusion is established, both by observation and
experiment, that the solvent from which the carbon has
crystallised must have been molten iron.
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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST
October 8, 1910
Legal Reports.
Refreshment Houses Act.
Herb Beers.
At Hull on September 29, William Stokes, medicine-
vendor, 28 Hessle Road, Hull, was summoned for keeping
a refreshment-house without a licence. The defendant sold
sarsaparilla-and-dandelion stout and cough-balsam for
consumption on the premises. Mr. J. H. Robinson,
analyst from the Government Laboratories, stated that all
were beverages of the class known as herbal or botanic
beers. The sarsaparilla-and-dandelion stout was con-
posed of a solution of sugar fermented with yeast con-
taining alcohol, saccharin, and a small quantity of bitter
flavouring. The cough-balsam was mad© of the same solu-
tion of sugar, etc., flavoured with oil of aniseed. He did
not regard them as medicines. Mr. John Carmichael,
F.C.S., also of the Government Laboratories, corroborated.
For the defence it was contended that the drinks were
medicines and not beverages, and that stamp-duty was
paid on the cough-balsam. The Bench convicted; but as
the business had been carried on for many years without
any complaint they imposed a nominal penalty of lis., in-
cluding costs. A case for appeal was stated.
Merchandise Marks Act, 1897.
Spurious Beecham's Pills.
At the Thames Police Court on October 1, before Mr.
John Dickinson, the Stipendiary, Bell & Co., chemists and
druggists, 100 Commercial Road, Stepney, were summoned
for having on September 23 sold to John Norris twopenny-
worth of pills to which a fake trade-description was
applied, contrary to the provisions of the Act. Mr.
Margetts, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Messrs.
Thomas Beecham, St. Helens, the prosecutors, and Mr.
Philps (representing Mr. G. H. Young, solicitor) was
for the defence. Mr. J. A. Lockwood, by whom the in-
formation was placed, also attended.
Mr. Philps explained that Mr. Marcus Woolf Cohen, the
principal of Bell & Co., being under the impression that
the summons was answerable at two o'clock instead of
11.30 a.m., was not present. His manager, Mr. A. H.
Hill, was in attendance, however, and was prepared to
tender a plea of guilty and have the case disposed of in
that court.
Mr. Dickinson said he had no power to agree to Mr.
Philps's suggestion in the absence of the actual defendant.
He was willing to adjourn the case on the usual under-
standing as to additional expenses.
Mr. Margetts expressed his willingness to consent to an
adjournment, but added that he would insist on a sub-
stantial sum for expenses. Mr. Moss, who controlled the
manufacture of the pills for Messrs. T. Beecham, had
travelled from St. Helens, and would have to remain in
London.
Evidence having been given that the summons was duly
served upon Mr. Cohen, Mr. Dickinson adjourned the case
to October 3.
When the case was called on Monday a lady, attired in
deep mourning, appeared in front of the dock, and in reply
to Mr. Young, who defended, gave her name as Brenda
Cohen, and described herself as the wife of Marcus Woolf
Cohen. Answering Mr. Dickinson, Mrs. Cohen stated that
the business of Bell & Co. was her own, and that she was
solely responsible for its conduct and management.
Mr. Young explained that the business was transferred
to Mrs. Cohen under a marriage settlement ; and requested
that her name should be substituted in the summons for
that of her husband. This request was agreed to.
The Clerk having explained that she had the right to
elect whether she would be tried by a judge and jury, or
in that court, Mrs. Cohen said her desire was that the
case should be disposed of there and then.
Mr. Young tendered a plea of guilty, and pleaded as an
extenuating circumstance that his client knew nothing of
the transaction which culminated in the charge against
her, although, unfortunately, she was responsible for it.
He assured his Worship that there was no intention of
" passing off. "
Mr. Margetts explained that the pills in question were,
with several other articles, purchased at defendant's shop
on behalf of Messrs. Beecham. At the request of the pur-
chaser an invoice was made out by the assistant, on whdeta
the pills were described as Beecham's. On being examined.
by one of the representatives of the firm, the pills were at
once seen to be spurious. During September two other
purchases of pills were made at the shop on behalf of
Messrs. Beecham, and on each occasion pills which were-
not theirs were given. A search-warrant was applied for
and granted, and when Dectective-Sergeant Lesson and Mr_
J. A. Lockwood, a travelling inspector in the employ of
Messrs. Beecham, went to the shop to enforce it, they
saw Mr. Hill, the manager, who said that he was respon-
sible for anything that took place in the shop. He also-
admitted selling pills other than Beecham's when they
were asked for. In a drawer behind the counter there-
were several of Beecham's boxes containing pills which-'
were spurious. Mr. Hill pointed to a large bottle whicla
contained these pills, and remarked, " These are also what
I fill the boxes from, and sell as Beecham's."
Mr. Young : My case is that Mr. Hill made a mistake.,
and that what he did was quite unintentional. My client:
knew nothing about the matter, and she has to trust the
manager for everything. We generally sell Beecham's;
when they are asked for. The pills which were sold in
this instance represented old stock, and the mistake oc-
curred in their being put into Beecham's boxes.
Mr. Dickinson : How long has Hill conducted the-
business ?
Mr. Young : Since April last. The sale was quite un-
intentional.
Mr. Dickinson : But I understand that there were three-
instances where the same "unintentional" mistake was-
made, and each of them was made upon the same pur-
chasers. The first might have been an accident, the second
probably was not, and the third certainly was not.
Mr. Young : Yes ; but the pills got into the wrong box,,
and there were very few sales in September.
Mr. Dickinson : How can the manager thus excuse him-
self— by keeping old boxes ? There were the boxes fro
which were the genuine pills, and each of them has an
Inland Revenue stamp attached. These had been emptied?
and other pills put in them. To say the least, this shows;
extreme carelessness on the part of the manager. It is-
always a feature of these cases — carelessness. It is always
an excuse that an old box has been kept, or that an assistant
or shop-boy inadvertently made a mistake. But that excuse-
won't do. The fine is seven guineas and three guineas
costs. ,<
Mr. Margetts : What is to be done with the spurious;
pills which were seized in the shop ?
Mr. Young : Oh ! you can keep them. Do what you like-
with them.
Mr. Margetts : Here, then, Sergeant, you can take them.-
They may be found good for police officers. (Laughter.)
Pharmacy Act, 1868.
Partnership in Scotland.
Before Sheriff Young at Aberdeen on October o, Alfred'
Swan, 19 Hadden Street, Aberdeen, was charged, at the-
instance of the Registrar, under the Act with having, oni
May 13, kept open shop for retailing, dispensing, and com-
pounding poisons, by selling to George Forbes a mixture-
containing a quantity of strychnine and a compound con-
taining a quantity of chloroform. Accused pleaded not",
guilty. Mr. A. C. Morison appeared for the prosecution,,
and Mr. G. M. Aitken, solicitor, for the defendant.
John R. Hill, pharmaceutical chemist, Assistant Secretary
of the Pharmaceutical Society, deposed that the name of
Alfred Swan did not appear on the Register of Chemists andJ
Druggists. He had instructed ex-Inspector Forbes to take-
the prescriptions to Swan's shop to be dispensed, and while
that was being done witness himself went into the shop and
asked for a bottle of chlorodyne. The defendant said he-
would give him a mixture of his own which would be more
suitable. Witness also purchased a packet of sulphur and'
a packet of cream of tartar. The label contained the name-
of Swan's Drug-stores. The shop was furnished as a?
chemist and druggist's shop. The next day (May 13) he-
went with Forbes to the shop and got the bottles containing:
the compounds asked for in the prescription. Defendant
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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
39
.attended to Mr. Forbes. The medicines had been in witness's
possession since. The analysis of the contents of the bottles
s showed that they were in conformity with the prescription.
There was considerably more than a full dose of poison in
■one of the bottles.
Joseph Tait, Ph.C, said the contents of the bottles were
iin conformity with the prescription.
Ex-Inspector Forbes spoke to presenting the prescriptions
. and to receiving the poisons.
John Forsyth, cashier with Messrs. William Patterson &
: Sons, wholesale druggists, gave evidence as to the amount
•of poisons sold by his firm to Mr. Swan between October
1909 and May 1910.
Mr. Aitken stated that the defence was that Mr. Simp-
son was a partner with Mr. Swan, and that as a qualified
• chemist he dispensed the poisons.
Defendant, in evidence, stated that he was thirty-two
years of age, and had been an assistant chemist for eighteen
years. He started business in November 1909, entering
into an agreement with Mr. James Simpson, chemist and
• druggist, whereby Mr. Simpson would make up the prescrip-
tions containing poisons. On the occasion in question he
knew it was " a catch." He told Mr. Forbes it would take
■some time to make up the preparation, and that if he cared
at would be sent on. Witness copied the prescription in the
^prescription-book, wrote the labels and handed them to Mr.
Simpson, who made up the preparation. Witness saw him
■ do it. It had been the practice in their partnership for Mr.
Simpson to make up all the poisons.
Mr. Simpson, in evidence, stated that the partnership was
• only a verbal agreement. Witness was to have one-sixth
-of the partnership. He attended the shop on Mondays,
'Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 2 in the after
noon till about 8.20, with an hour off between 5 and 6 for
"tea. On Friday he was in the shop between 12 and about
;B.30, and on Saturdays practically all day. He was engaged
•at his business as a printer's reader from 8.30 in the evening
till 5 in the morning. He made up the prescriptions in ques
tion. Cross-examined, witness said he got 12s. out of the
Ibusiness every week. He had not got any share of the
iprofits yet because the balance-sheet had not been made up
He had looked into the accounts, and was satisfied that there
■was a profit. There was no written agreement between
vthem, but they understood each other. He had not spoken
;about the agreement to anyone.
Sheriff Young, in giving judgment, said : The case cer
ttainly appears to be somewhat narrow ; but, on the whole
I have come to the conclusion that the charge against
'•the accused in this complaint has been established. It
is said that he kept open shop in these premises at
19 Hadden Street, Aberdeen, and there sold the poisons
•that are particularly mentioned. There can be no doubt
• of this, I think, that on the evidence before us, he and no
•other person was attending to the shop. His own name
gave the title to the business, no other than he had
"licence to sell proprietary articles, for he had the licence
nn his own name as applicable to the particular premises
-which he occupied. In like manner it was in his name
"that the licence to sell methylated spirits stood, and it is
■perfectly plain, I think, that he and he alone made applica
'tion for supplies for the business, and he alone took poisons
from wholesale firms into stock in his premises. I am
•quite unable to say that there existed a partnership between
Mr. Swan and Mr. Simpson. I am bound to advert to the
fact which tells so strongly against the defence, that there
ris absent here, apart, from what they say, that very kind
• of evidence which we would expect to exist if a real
partnership existed between them. I should expect you to
have some outside party who would have been able to
"tell us that during these months he or they had dealt with
the partnership, and had treated the business as being
• carried on not by a single individual, but by two gentle
men in company. Evidence of that kind is entirely absent
-and I do not think I could safely say that such a -partner
• ship existed. I shall therefore find the case proven, an
-the whole question will then be for me to determine what
-penalty I shall impose. I suppose this case is brought for
~the purpose of giving a warning.
Mr. Morison : I am afraid I am bound to say that this
-is a case which the Pharmaceutical Society regard as
deliberate attempt to contravene the terms of the statute
This man knew that he was not qualified. It is exceed-
ingly hard for men who are qualified that they should have
to compete with those who are not.
Mr. Aitken : It is a kind of trades union.
Mr. Morison : It is a great danger to the public. It is
uite easy to see how cases of this kind lead to fatalities.
The Sheriff ordered accused to pay a fine of 51. or go
o prison for twenty days, directing the penalty to go to
the prosecution towards the expenses of the case.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
Zinc Ointment foe White-precipitate Ointment.
On Tuesday, October 4, before Mr. H. Heldmann, J. P.,
and other Justices, sitting at Brentford, Middlesex, a
summons was heard under Section 6 of the 1875 Act, charg-
ing Charles Humble, drug-store keeper, 286 High Street,
Old Brentford, with having on September 2 sold to the
prejudice of the purchaser a drug purporting to be white-
precipitate ointment which was not of the nature and sub-
stance demanded, as it consisted entirely of zinc oint-
ment. Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was represented by
Mr. Charles Robinson, solicitor. — Mr. R. A. Robinson,
jun., barrister-at-law, who prosecuted, stated that in his
opinion the object of the sale was to evade the risk of
penalties under the Pharmacy Act, as defendant, not being
a qualified chemist, was not entitled to sell white-precipi-
tate ointment, a scheduled poison. It appeared that the
purchase was made by a youth named Halliwell, who had
handed Mr. Humble a written order for a " cake of Wright's
oal-tar soap and 7>d. worth of white-precipitate ointment."
Zinc ointment was supplied by defendant in a box without
any label. — Mr. C. Robinson admitted the facts, but denied
Mr. R A. Robinson's statement that zinc ointment is useless
for treating verminous heads. He added that white-pre-
cipitate ointment is a dangerously strong article, and that
zinc ointment is a milder preparation having similar uses.—
A fine of 21., with 17s. 6d. costs, was imposed.
Bankruptcy Report.
Re William Rickard, Filey, Chemist and Druggist. — The
public examination was held at the Scarborough Bankruptcy
Court on October 4, when the particulars as reported in our
issue of October 1, p. 508, were repeated. In his deficiency
account he had put the takings latterly at the Queen Street
shop at 6/., and at the Johns Street shop at 8;. The Official
Receiver pointed out that in 1906 the sum of 1,070?. was paid
into the bank, and in 1907 838/. Debtor replied : " There is
probably some borrowed money included in that— from the
bank.". The Official Receiver: In 1908 the sum was 975/..
in 1909 785/., and in June 1910 you paid 193/. into the bank,
and in the previous June 348/. Debtor : Yes, there was a big
drop. Proceeding, debtor attributed the drop to competition
on the part of other shops, which meant cutting the prices. In .'
addition, he had not been well for some time past. There
had been ten children, and six were living. He had felt
uncomfortable for some time, and had borrowed money to
endeavour to go on. It amounted to this— that he had been
trying to keep afloat a sinking ship. The furniture had been
given to his wife by her mother, and his wife- claimed it.
Apart from a legacv he had had from his father, he had no
further interest, but his wife had cottages left her bringing
in about 81. a quarter. Three of the children were under the
a"-e of fourteen. The examination was closed. The follow-
ing are creditors : Bleasdale, Ltd., York (57/.) ; Wm. FoKptt,
Thirsk (39/.); Duncan, Flockhart & Co., Edinburgh (14/.);
Hirst, Brooke & Hirst, Ltd.. Leeds (10/.); Mrs. W G. Long.
Filey (266/.) ; Lofthouse & Saltmer, Hull (72/.) ; S. Maw, Son
& Sons, London (13/.); Stephen & Martin, Hull (38/.).
Gazette.
Partnerships Dissolved.
Boswell, A., and Bull, G. V., physicians, etc.. Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, under the style of Boswell & Bull.
Griffik, M. L., and Lynch, S. F., physicians, etc., Plymouth,
under the style of Drs. Griffin & Lynch.
The Bankruptcy Acts, 1883 and 1890.
Receiving Obdebs.
Naylor, Edward Alfred, Oxton, BirkenheacJ, late Tran-
mere, Birkenhead, chemist.
Ruck, William, Pickering, medical practitioner.
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Birth.
Mavoh.— At Hightown, Crewe, on October 4, the wife
of J. Mavor, chemist and druggist, of a daughter.
Marriages.
Bagley— Catteeson — At Roath parish church, Cardiff
on October 1, Edward H. Bagley, of Messrs. Bagley & Co.'
druggists' sundriesmen, of Cardiff, to Bessie, daughter of
the late Mt. Thos. Catterson, of Cardiff.
Claeke— Peeey.— At the Parish Church, Bradford-on-
Avon, on October 1, by the Be v. W. Mereweather, Vicar,
assisted by the Rev. W. Noel, Vicar of Christ Church^
Frank Clarke, pharmacist, to Gertrude May, elder
daughter of Mr. Robert Perry, Bradford-on-Avon.
Unswoeth— Hebon.— At Second Presbyterian Church,
Ballynahinch, co. Down, on September 16, by the Rev.'
R. G. Milling, B.D., assisted by the Rev. J. Coulson, the
Rev. W. S. Heron and the Rev. George Heron (brothers of
the bride), Thomas Unsworth, registered druggist, Ballyna-
hinch, to Sarah Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. J. P.
Heron, Ballykine, Ballynahinch.
Deaths.
Appleyaed.— At 76 Ryan Street, Bradford, on October 1,
Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. William Appleyard, chemist
and druggist, and mother of Mr. Fredk. Wm. Appleyard,
chemist and druggist, Bradford, aged sixty-five.
Assee.— On October 5, Mr. William Wotton Asser, of
" Oak Lawn," Anerley, S.E.. and senior partner of W. W.
Asser & Co., Ltd., colonial brokers, of 29 Mincing Lane,
E.C., aged seventy-two. The deceased had for many years
been closely connected with the Mincing Lane coffee trade,
and was highly respected.
Bailey. — At Plassy, near Limerick, on October 4, sud-
denly, Mr. William Wellington Bailey, rubber magnate,
financier, and sportsman, aged fifty-six. Mr. Bailey
•was one of the first to recognise the possibilities of rubber
planting in the Malay States, and his success eventually
culminated in the formation, four years ago, of the High-
lands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co., Ltd., of which he
was a director. He also undertook the cultivation of the
so-called Johore ipecacuanha, first at Pengerang Estate,
Johore, and later at the Highlands and Lowlands estate at
Klang, Selangor. The curious fact is that the Highlands
and Lowlands estate is the only one that has been success-
ful with ipecacuanha cultivation in the Straits Settlements,
its failure to grow on a commercial scale in India being
almost classic. Incidentally it may be mentioned that a
parcel of the "W.W.B." mark was offered at the drug
auctions on Thursday. Having acquired a large fortune
from rubber, Mr. Bailey arrived in this country early in
the year, taking up his residence in Ireland. He was well
known in racing circles, the City and Suburban and Royal
Hunt Cup falling to his colours.
Buttees. — At Johannesburg on September 5, after a long
illness, Mrs. Hull Butters, wife of Mr. Robert Butters,
chemist and druggist. The funeral took place on Septem-
ber 6 at Braamfontein Cemetery, and was largely attended
by members of the Pharmaceutical Society, among whom
were Messrs. A. Macdonald (President)', Charles Keir
(Vice-President), J. H. Dinwoodie, W. A. J. Cameron,
R. Q. Leeds, J. Mam, J. Astell Willson, C. Gerrish, A.
Rennie, Lewis Thomas, E. L. Railing, P. W. Drummond,
E. J. Adcock, W. B. Marshall, J. Christie, and R.
McGeorge. The many floral tributes received included
one from the Pharmaceutical Society and one from the
Pharmacy Board.
Caemichael. — At the Pharmacy, Leslie, on October 2,
Emily Clayton-Duthie, wife of Mr. John Carmichael,
pharmacist, 71 High Street West, Leslie, Fife.
Gibbons. — On September 25, Mr. George Gibbons,
chemist and druggist, Adwy, near Wrexham, aged seventy-
five. Mr. Gibbons was an assistant for many years to the
late Dr. Edward Davies, Coedpoeth, near Wrexham, but
latterly conducted a business in Adwy as a chemist. He
leaves a wife and two daughters.
Myles. — At the Medical Hall. Birr, on September 29,
Albert Stuart, infant son of Mr. John P. Myles, L.P.S.I.
Philp. — At Gwendrock, Wadebridge, Cornwall, on Sep-
tember 26, Mrs. Philp, widow of Mr. Joseph Philp,
chemist and druggist, of Wadebridge, and formerly of
Paddock Wood, Kent.
Smith. — On September 17, Mr. Samuel Allen Smith,
102 The Parade, Leamington, aged seventy-nine.
Smith. — On September 18, Mr. James Singer Smith,
chemist and druggist, Bletchingley, Surrey, aged eighty-
seven.
Stevens. — At Bournemouth, on September 17, Mr. Peter
Augustus Stevens, chemist and druggist, 72 Mansfield'
Road, Haverstock Hill, London, N.W., aged seventy-
seven.
Recent Will.
Me. Oscar Guttmann, M.I.C.E., F.C.S., who died as the
result of a taxicab accident at Brussels on August 2, left
estate in the United Kingdom o'f the gross value of 3,510/.,
with net personality 2,985/.
Deeds of Arrangement.
Black, George, 109 Cromac Street, Belfast, Druggist.
(See C. <£• D. October 1, p. 503).— The creditors include:
D. & W. Gibbs, Ltd. (4/. 0s. 5d.) ; Fassett & Johnson
(21. Is. lOiZ.) ; Lorimer & Co. (5/. 8s. M.) ; Gusta/v Boehm
(8/. 5s. Id.) ; E. E. Jackson (12s. 9d.) ; John Clarke & Co., Ltd.,
Belfast (9s. %d.) ; T. McMullen & Co., Belfast (38/. 2s. 5d.) ;
J. Townsend & Sons, Exeter (6s. Id.) ; Ayrton, Saunders & Co.,
Ltd., Liverpool (7/. 8s. 5d.) ; Blyton, Astley & Co., Manchester
(21. 10s. Id.).
Walter, William, trading as H. Walter & Sons, 377 and
379 Wandsworth Road, London, S.W., and residing at
417 Wandsworth Road, S.W., Wholesale and Retail Oilman.—
Trustee, Mr. F. French, 10 to 12 Eastcheap, London, E.C.
Dated September 20 ; filed September 24. Secured creditors,
1,734/. ; liabilities unsecured, 4,587/. ; estimated net assets,
417/. The creditors include : Bovril, Ltd. (60/.) ; J. Crosfield
& Co., Ltd. (110/.) ; Edward Cook & Co., Ltd. (11/.) ; Corneille,
David & Co. (23/.) ; Fassett & Johnson (10/.) ; J. Oakey & Sons,
Ltd. (53/.) ; Price's Patent Candle Co., Ltd. (59/.) ; Patent
Borax Co., Ltd. (44/.); St. George's Chemical Co. (10/.).
Ballard, William, trading as Davies & Co., 393, 559 and
560 Commercial Road East, London E., and residing at
Bawkhurst, Kent, Chemist.— Trustee : G. M. White, 14 Old
Jewry Chambers, London, E.C, C.A. Dated September 23;
filed September 28. Secured creditors, 710/. ; liabilities un-
secured, 1,720/. ; estimated net assets, 540/. Among the
creditors are : Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Ltd. (477/.); F.
Newbery & Sons (384/.) ; exors. of Mrs. M. Ballard (300/.) ;
Allen & Hanburys, Ltd. (15/.) ; Wright & Co. (11/.) ; Meggeson
& Co. (40/.) ; Bartlett Hooper & Co. (24/.) ; F. S. Cleaver &
Sons, Ltd. (13/.) ; D. & W. Gibbs, Ltd. (10/.); Breidenbach &
Co. (9/.) ; Ed. Cook & Co., Ltd. (8/.) ; Ashton & Parsons, Ltd.
(6/.) ; H. C. Quelch & Co. (5/.) ; G. S. Mumford & Sons (5/.);
Express Developing Co. (6/.) ; J. Townsend & Sons, Exeter
(14/.) ; Harrison & Waide, Leeds (11/.) ; C. E. Fulford, Ltd.,
Leeds (6/.) ; J. Richardson & Co., Leicester, Ltd. (11/.) ; A. de>
St. Dalmas & Co., Leicester (6/.) ; Thomas Beecham, St.
Helens (31/.) ; Erasmic Co., Ltd., Warrington (7/.).
Chinese Albumen and Egg-yolk. — Of the greatly increased
export of albumen and egg-yolk from Hankow, the ports
Antwerp and Hamburg were the chief declared destinations in
1909, the former taking 4,983 and 15,883 cwt., and the latter
5,373 and 23,326 cwt. The supply of eggs seems to be in-
exhaustible, and the price in gold is kept down by the con-
stantly falling exchange of copper currency. The total export
of albumen from Hankow was 13,575 cwt. (47,256/.), against
6.395 cwt. (27,644/.) in 1908, and of egg-yolk the exports were
53,341 cwt. (30,921/.), against 32,163 cwt. "(18,248/.) in 1908.
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New Companies Registered.
The letters P.C. mean Private Company within the meaning ot
the Companies Act, 1907, and R.O., Registered Office.
Cuban (Patent) Syndicate, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 15,000/.
Objects : To carry on the business of planters of and dealers
in rubber, tea. coffee, tobacco, cocoanuts, gums, sugar, cocoa,
spices, cinchona, opium, rice, padi, cereals, timber, etc., in
Cuba.
Anti- Vivisection Hospital, the Batteesea General Hos-
pital (Incorporated).— Registered as a company limited by
guarantee, with an unlimited number of members, each
liable for 11. in the event of winding-up, to carry on the busi-
ness indicated by the title.
Sansol, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 3,000/., in 11. shares. Objects :
To carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in
a hair-restorer known as " Sansol " and other hair-prepara-
tions, perfumery, etc. The subscribers are T. B. Wildman
and C. Wildman. R.O., 5 Changegate, Keighley.
Selphosa Salt Co., Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 1,250/. Objects:
To carry on the business of manufacturers of "Selphosa " table
salt and other articles of food, etc., and to adopt an agree-
ment with L. Anidjah. The first directors are L. Anidjah
(permanent managing director), J. Luxton, and A. E. Hyde.
R.O., 81 Essex Road, N.
Lecithin, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 1,500/., in 1/. shares.
Objects : To carry on the business of general merchants, manu-
facturers, importers and exporters of and dealers in foods,
medicines, drugs, perfumery, proprietary articles, etc., and
to adopt an agreement with N. E. Robins. The first directors
are W. H. Wreford (chairman) and N. E. Robins (managing
director). Remuneration, 150/. per annum and 10 per cent.
of the net profits over 1,000/., divisible. R.O., 15, 16, and 17
Eldon Street, E.C.
Remedies, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 5,000/., in 1/. shares.
Objects : To carry on the business of manufacturers of and
dealers in medicines, medical preparations, drugs and oint-
ments, chemists, druggists, etc., to acquire certain medicinal
and other preparations known as " Swaree," " Eleksa," and
" Solavo " from J. S. Reed, of Plymouth, together with
certain recipes and information relating to the manufacture
and the right to manufacture and deal in the said prepara-
tions, and to adopt an agreement with A. Swanger and J. S.
Reed. The first subscribers and directors are J. S. Reed and
A. Swanger. R.O., 8 Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C.
G. T. W. Newsholme, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 10,000/., in 1/.
shares (5,000 preference). Objects: To take over the business
of a pharmaceutical and manufacturing chemist carried on
by G. T. W. Newsholme at 27 High Street, Sheffield. The first
subscribers are G. T. W. Newsholme, 27 High Street, Shef-
field, pharmaceutical chemist ; J. Austen, 27 High Street, Shef-
field, pharmaceutical chemist; J. P. Sharman, 7 St. James'
Road, Sheffield, estate agent, etc. ; and W. J. Booth, 43 Mona
Road, Sheffield, commercial traveller. The first directors
are G. T. W. Newsholme and J. Austen. G. T. W. Newsholme
is chairman, and may retain office while holding 2,000 pre-
ference or ordinary shares. J. Austen may retain office while
holding 1,000 preference or ordinary shares. Remuneration
of G. T. W. Newsholme, 400/. per annum, divisible. Regis-
tered office : 27 High Street, Sheffield.
Company News.
Aerators, Ltd. — The directors announce an interim divi-
dend of 6 per cent, per annum, free of income-tax, on the
ordinary shares for the half-year.
Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Ltd. — Warrants for the divi-
dend on the 5 per cent, cumulative preference shares for the
half-year which ended on September 30 have been posted.
Sulphate of Ammonia Co., Ltd. — A notice of the appoint-
ment of P. Mason, 64 Gresham Street, E.G., as receiver or
manager, on September 19, 1910, under powers contained in
debenture dated November 3, 1909, has been filed.
Limited Partnership. — D. D. D. Co., vendors of a patent
medicine, Bangor House, 66 Shoe Lane, E.G., were regis-
tered on September 26. Partnership for ten years from
September 1, 1910. General partner : T. Burnell, 3 Darnlev
Road, Holland Park, W. Limited partners : B. E. Page,
116 Michigan Street, Chicago, 111., U.S.A.. and R. E. Clare,
66 Shoe Lane, E.C, contributing 600/. and 200/. in cash re-
spectively.
Porto Rico Honey.— Apiculture is making progress in
Porto Rico; about 100 barrels were shipped to New York
last year, and it is expected to be more than double this year.
Prices, on an average, ruled at 50c. per gal. first cost.
Trade Notes.
"Business Success." — Under this title Mr. Bernard
Slack, 9 King Street, Wolverhampton, publishes a pamphlet
giving particulars of the several departments in which he
advises chemists as to the improvement of business.
Mr. John Bolton has again obtained a position with.
Messrs. Armour & Co., Ltd., Atlantic House, Holborn
Viaduct, London, E.C, and will call upon London pharma-
cists on their behalf to submit samples and prices of
Armour's soaps.
Corks. — With further reference to the paragraph which
appeared in this column last week, Messrs. N. W. Mitchell
& Sons, Ltd., " Bouchon " W'orks, Limehouse, E., in their
announcement appearing in this issue, give further par-
ticulars of the large order referred to by us last week.
Edwards' Harlene Co., 95 and 96 High Holborn,
London, W.C, intimate that on and after October 17 the
minimum retail prices of "Harlene" will be lOd. for the
Is. size, 2s. Id. for the 2s. 6d. size, and 3s. 9d. for the
4s. 6d. size. In their advertisement in this issue is printed
the first series of names of leading stores and others who
have agreed to maintain these prices.
Messrs. Wright, Layman & Umney, Ltd., Southwark,
London, S.E., have issued along with their usual monthly
prices current of chemicals, drugs, and pharmaceutical
preparations, an illustrated quarto list of packed pharma-
ceuticals for retail sale by pharmacists. This extends to
eighty-eight pages, and is beautifuly printed, and the illus-
trations, although reduced in size, show admirably the
nature of the packages offered.
The Erasmic Co., Ltd., Warrington, have submitted to
us particulars of their new profit-sharing scheme for
chemists. With orders of 21., 41., or 61. worth of goods they
are giving discounts varying from 10 per cent, to 15 per
cent, off invoices, thus providing the retailer with 33^ per
cent, profit, although the retail prices are protected by the
P.A.T.A. The only return that the company ask is that
the goods shall be displayed in the window and on the
counter for a short period. We would suggest to our readers
that they should write to the company at Warrington for
the printed particulars of the bonus scheme, which also
show the prices of the soaps and other specialties, including
perfumes, which form the purchase.
" Analax " is the name of a new laxative in the form of
pastilles which has been patented by Mr. R. Demtith,
68 Salusbury Road, West Kilburn, London, N.W. The
pastilles are of a pretty
pink - coloured substance,
crystallised on the outside,
and are put up in decorated
tin boxes, each containing
two dozen. The pastilles
are quite free from medi-
cinal taste, and promise to
be a popular domestic
medicine, both on account
of their palatability and
efficacy. There is no question of the fact that " Ana-
lax " is a reliable laxative which acts without griping,
and the combination is designed to regulate the bowels as
well as open them. The article is on the P.A.T.A. list to
sell at Is. l^d. per box, the minimum cash price being Is.,
and the wholesale price leaves 30 per cent, profit to the
retailer. "Analax" may be obtained direct from the
manufacturer or through the wholesale houses.
Past and Present. — The British Drug Houses, Ltd.,
Graham Street, London, N., in their various announce-
ments published in the C. <b D. have struck a decorative
note of their own. For the P. P. P. chemicals they have
designed a border in which modern chemical apparatus
(such as a large still, a centrifuge drier, and a filter-
press) are contrasted with stills used in the eighteenth
century, the latter being reproduced from wood engravings
of the period. The modern apparatus is sketched from,
plant in the Company's new laboratories. It is a difficult
matter to produce an artistic effect from such materials, but
the British Drug Houses have succeeded well, and the
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design forms a fitting frame to their chemicals of the
"pure for pharmaceutical purposes" specification.
Messrs. Stafford Allen & Sons, Ltd., Cowper Street,
Finsbury, London, E.C., in a new essential-oil price-list,
include for the first time in their history certain oils
of foreign origin which cannot be made in England to
advantage. This innovation has enabled Messrs. Stafford
Allen & Sons to improve the list in certain respects. The
oik are arranged alphabetically, as usual, each one being
immediately followed by the price terms (whether discount
or net); then a column is devoted to "Characteristics"
and another to "Remarks." Thus in the case of "Staf-
ford's Russian Anise Oil," the characteristics are " S.G.
@ 20° C. 0.975 to 0.990, melting-point 15° to 19° C," and
the remarks, "Distilled from Russian fruit Pimpinella
Anisvm." This is a decided advantage to buyers. Of
course Messrs. Stafford Allen deal only with the wholesale
trade, but retail buyers of oils can obtain their products
through any wholesale house on specification.
A Brief Sketch of the exhibit of Messrs. Brady &
Martin, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, at the Brussels Inter-
national Exhibition has been published. It is a well-
illustrated pamphlet, beginning with a graphic account of
the origin of the Exhibition and the participation of Great
Britain in great international exhibitions. It is illustrated
with two excellent engravings of the British Section.
Then follows an account, with illustrations, of Messrs.
Brady & Martin's own exhibit, which embraces many
special forms of scientific apparatus and pharmaceutical
preparations of all kinds. For these they received a
Grand Prix and two diplomas of honour — one of the latter
for instruments and appliances used in medical and sur-
gical work, and another for a display of scientific instru-
ments for higher education and technical research work.
The exhibit was in several respects unique, and this illus-
trated account of it is an excellent souvenir.
Personalities.
Notes for this section musi: not be in the nature of advertisements,
and they should be authenticated when sent to the Editor.
Dr. Spence Watson has been elected the first President
of Armstrong College, Newcastle, under the new con-
stitution.
Mr. Harry Kemp, chemist, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, has
resigned his seat on the Manchester City Council owing to
ill-health.
Mr. F. Sarson, pharmacist, 2 Palace Avenue, Paignton,
has been appointed Treasurer of the Torbay Lodge of
Freemasons.
Mr. Ernest Gostling, chemist's assistant, has been
elected to fill a casual vacancy on the Saxmundham Urban
District Council.
Mr. F. B. Kilmer, of Messrs. Johnson & Johnson, New
Brunswick, N.J., has been paying a visit to the London
agency of the company.
Alderman J. R. Birkett, chemist and druggist, has
accepted the Morecambe Town Council's invitation to
retain the Mayoralty of the Borough for another year.
Mr. T. Howell W. Idris, J.P., F.C.S., will preside at
the 107th anniversary dinner on behalf of the funds of the
Licensed Victuallers' School at the Hotel Cecil on
October 25.
Councillor J. V. Mainprize, chemist and druggist,
Deputy-Mayor of Bridlington, has been invited by the
local Town Council to accept the Mayoralty of the Borough
on November 9.
Mr. William Yates, pharmacist and optician, 67 Market
Street, Shaw, near Oldham, was elected President of the
Shaw and Crompton Tradesmen's Association at the annual
meeting held on October 3.
It is stated in well-informed circles that the successor to
Sir Patrick Manson as the Principal Medical Adviser to the
Department of the Colonial Secretary will be Dr. C. Wilber-
force Daniels, M.R.C.P., who has for some time past been
acting for the present occupant of the post. Dr. Daniels
is a graduate of Cambridge University and has had a long
Experience in various parts of the British Empire of the
treatment of tropical diseases, and the knowledge thus-
acquired will be of the utmost value in connection with the-
work of the Colonial Office. Dr. Daniels has for some time
past been director of the London School of Tnopical
Medicine.
The late Mrs. Ernest Cresswell, who was a Governor
of the Latymer Foundation, took a keen personal interest,
in the Boy Scouts belonging to the school, and!
she had prepared colours for them, the presenta-
tion of which was delayed owing to her death.
On Wednesday evening, October 5, a company of
four or five hundred assembled in the Hammersmith Town
Hall, when Lady Bull, the wife of Sir William Bull, M.P.,-
presented the colours, after they had been consecrated by
the Rev. E. S. Duval, the Chaplain of the Troop. Mr.
Thomas Chamberlen, J. P., presided, and addresses were-
given by him, Sir William Bull, and Mr. Ernest CresswelL
Proficiency badges and special prizes were presented to aa
number of boys, and a lantern lecture was given by Mr.-
J. A. Kyle on scouting.
Winter Session oi Chemists*
Associations.
Association Presidents.
Mr. H. Raithby Procter, the new President of the Western'
Pharmacists' Association of London, has come to that position-
as successor to a line of
distinguished pharmacists,
and as one who has done
excellent service to the
Association as Secretary
for three years. He is one
of the many whom Lincoln-
shire has given to phar-
macy and who have taken
front rank in metropolitan
affairs. After his educa-
tion at Boston Grammar
School he was apprenticed
to Mr. William Gilliatt, of
that town, and after his
apprenticeship extended
hie experience at Newport
Pagnell with Messrs. T. &
F. J. Taylor, in London
with Mr. Parson C. Baker,
and in the Isle of Wight
with Messrs. Gibbe &
Gurnell, Ryde. He passed
the Minor examination in .
July 1886, and three years later commenced business on hie-
own account at 113 The Grove, Hammersmith, where he-
still is. Mr. Procter takes a keen interest in pharmaceutical!
affairs, and many who attend the meetings of the British
Pharmaceutical Conference recall his pleasant conversation
and wide knowledge of affairs. He has oqmmenced his year
of presidency this week with every indication of success.
Mr. H
Brief Records.
Torquay Pharmacists' Association.— A meeting was
held on September 26, when Messrs. Bourne (President),
Newlyn, Ness, Knight, Quant, and Ventham (Hon. Secretary^
attended. Items of local interest affecting pharmacy were-
discussed, and it was also decided to recommend that Mr. R.
Horner be appointed local Divisional Secretary.
Manchester Optical Society.-The 1910-11 session was*
inaugurated on Wednesday evening, October 5, with a con-
versazione at the Albion Hotel, Manchester. There were
about seventy ladies present, Mr. J. C. Kidd (President/
taking the chair. The artistes including Mies B. Faust Mis<-:
F Charles, Mr. J. H. Franklin, Mr. H. Charles, Mr. Wilfnct
Ludlow, Mr. W. A Taylor, and Mr. Mat Matz.
Society of Chemist-Opticians.— A Council meeting was-
held at St. Bride Institute, London, E.C., on October 5,
when there were present Messrs. R. Blanchford (Vice-Presi-
dent) in the chair, G. Curtis, J. R. Cornish, and the Hon.
Secretary (Mr. J. H. Cuff). The following gentlemen were-
elected members: Messrs. P. W. Boughen, Birkenhead; H.
Duncan, Arbroath; A. J. Kerrison, Sunderland; T. Lamb,.
London, W. ; T. Mackenzie, Inverness ; and J. B. Purvis,
Bridlington. The following were appointed the General Pur-
poses Committee: Messrs. R. Blanchford, G. Curtis, F.'S-
Horsey, S. W. Woolley, and the President and Hon. Secre-
tary. The remainder of the business was taken in committee.
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Dews bury Pharmacists Association.— At the first
jmeeting of the session, on October 3, there were present
Messrs. R. Broadhcad (in the chair), A. B. Barker (Heck-
irnondwike), S. N. Piekard (Ossett), J. Rhodes (Mirfield), W.
Blakeley (Birstall), R, Gledhill, G. N. Gutteridge, G. Butter-
field, R. J. H. Day, J. Day, and G. Walker (Hon. Secretary).
A letter was read from Messrs. Fairchild Bros. & Foster re the
removal of the embargo restricting the sale of paropepton
.-and similar preparations to holders of wine licences. Eventu-
ally a resolution was passed similar to that of the Torquay
Association, urging the Pharmaceutical Society to approach
•the Board of Trade on the matter. It was decided to send
tthe resolution to the Chemists' Defence Association also. Mr.
Gutteridge raised the question as to whether Messrs. Coleman
•& Co. should be approached with a view of obtaining more
'profit on the sale of Wincarnis. Mr. Barker asked why the
protected price should not be raised. Ultimately it was
•decided to approach Messrs. Coleman & Co. on the lines
indicated above.
Leeds Chemists' Association.— The opening meeting
•of the session was held at the Grand Restaurant, Leeds, on
Wednesday evening, October 5, Mr. J. H. Beacock (President)
in the chair, about seventy members present. The President
•gave an address, in the course of which he wondered whether
it was true that they were much better off than were the
chemists of a quarter to half a century ago. The qualifying
•examination of the Pharmaceutical Society had been made
much more difficult — so difficult, in fact, that he was reminded
of Mr. Meller's description of learning the alphabet : " It is
•going through so much to gain so little." And this especially
^seemed the case when they remembered the small amount of
•dispensing some chemists got and the little opportunity they
Tiad of utilising the knowledge in that practical way. He
•considered that socially and financially the chemist does not
in consequence occupy an enhanced position, at least not
always. Mr. Beacock then touched upon efforts, co-opera-
tion'; etc., that are being made to ameliorate the condition of
•chemists, remarking that much depends upon the business
ability of individuals. — Songs, elocutionary items, and
musical selections were given by Messrs. Swales, Russell, N.
Whiteley, S. R. Wyvill, Eddison, Bonsfield, Batman, Gold-
thorpe, S. R. Mundell, Haw, and Mitchell. The meeting
•was a remarkable success.
London Chemists' Association.— A meeting of the
•General Purposes Committee was held at 19 Kennington
'Terrace, London, S.E., on October 4, when Mr. J. C. Pentney
was elected Chairman and Mr. P. Truman (the retiring
•Chairman) Vice-Chairman. Mr. Pentney, in returning thanks
for the honour bestowed upon him, said that he regretted the
•choice had not fallen on someone who could devote more
time and energy to the work of the Association. However,
his regard for the welfare of chemists was as great as ever,
although he had practically retired. Although the Lon-
don Chemists' Association had done excellent work in the
past, especially in parliamentary matters, there still remained
much to be done in regard to place names, such as pharmacy,
dental surgery, etc. Mr. Truman said it was good for every
Association to have a change of officers ; he would continue
Iris work for the Association, but he regretted to see so little
interest taken by chemists in matters affecting their calling.
The Honorary Secretary, Mr. J. Wellesley Douglas, called
attention to the meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce,
at which was introduced the subject of manufacturing in
"bond. In the event of this becoming an accomplished fact,
it ocourred to him that the wholesaler would be placed in
a preferential position in regard to manufacturing tinctures
and other spirituous preparations, which would further reduce
the number, which was already too few, of pharmacists who
made their own tinctures. A short discussion followed, and
it was agreed to postpone the matter to another occasion. The
next general meeting was fixed for November 24, when Dr.
Walter R. Hadwen, J. P., will give an address on " Anti-
"Vaccination."
Western Pharmacists' Association of London,-
The new session was opened with a concert and whist-drive
at Frascati's on Wednesday evening, October 5. In spite of
the fact that official pharmacy found counter-attraction in a
"'Pharmacy Club Dinner" on the same evening, over one
hundred members and their lady friends were present. The
new President (Mr. H. Raithby Procter) was in the chair,
and shortly after eight an excellent miniature concert was
oegun, at which the President's daughter was one of the best
appreciated features The musical items were mainly con-
tributed by 'members of the Association, among whom Mr.
Jack Royle (of Ingram & Royle) came in for a large share of
enthusiasm for his song. Miss Daisy Pocock was an accept-
able accompanist. Among those present were Mrs. Raithby
Procter, Mr. and Mrs. Paget Matthews, Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Barrett, Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Whigham, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brooks,
Mrs. Edmund White, Mr. W. J. U. Woolcock, Mr.
T. W. Williams (Wright, Layman & Umney, Ltd.), Mr.
Presant (Sangers'), Mr. F. W. Crossley-Holland (Menley
& James, Ltd.), Mr. Royle, senr. (Ingram & Royle, Ltd.),
Mr. Brittain, Mr. Browne, Mr. Shaw, Mr. N. H.
Schollar, and Mr. C. T. Allen (Hon. Secretary). After music
came refreshments, and whist was begun about ten o'clock.
Ten games were played and the following were the prize-
winners: Ladies, (1) Mrs. Paget Matthews, (2) Mrs. J. T.
Barrett, (consolation) Miss Baker; gentlemen, (1) Mr. George
A. How, (2) Mr. Alban Atkin, (consolation) Mr. A. R.
Melhuish. The prizes were distributed by Mrs. Raithby
Procter, and in thanking the President for his able conduct
of the proceedings, Mr. Paget Matthews (President of the
Croydon Chemists' Association) voiced the feelings of all
present. More than a meed of praise is due to the Hon.
Secretary for genial and unobtrusive aid towards the success
of the evening.
Bradford Chemists' Association.
A Large attendance of members of the Association
gathered at the Royal Hotel, Darley Street, Bradford, on
October 4, for the monthly business meeting, when Mr.
Marmaduke Firth (President) occupied the chair. In a
communication from Alderman Dunn, pharmacist, thanks
were expressed for the Association's congratulations upon
his election to the magisterial bench. After Divisional
Secretaries had been appointed, the Secretary (Mr. R.
Silson) referred to an anonymous letter which he had re-
ceived. He first explained that a customer, after pur-
chasing some eau de Cologne and essence of vanilla at his
pharmacy about a week ago, had observed that there was
no law existent which allowed him to sell those articles,
and that Mr. Silson had therefore broken the law in selling
them without a spirit-licence. Upon being told that re-
gistered chemists were allowed by the Inland Revenue
Authority to sell the commodities, the man stated that the
permission of the Inland Revenue Authority did not con-
stitute legal permission, and that there had never been a
law passed which gave chemists the right to sell spirituous
medicines. The Secretary had gathered that his customer
was connected with some wholesale grocers' society. The
customer, who also referred to the correspondence between
the Hull Pharmacists' Association and the Inland Revenue
Authorities, said he bought some spirituous preparations,
including brilliantine, from Messrs. Mackay & Son, Brad-
ford. In conclusion, the customer said he was not going
to take any action in regard to the present case, but if
the thing came to a head pharmacists would find that
various organisations would be against them. The letter
which had since been received bore a Leeds post-mark, but
no address or signature. It read as follows :
September 27, 1910.
Dear Sir, — Since calling upon you last week I have had
a copy of a Bradford newspaper sent to me in which there
is a paragraph about grocers having been warned respect-
ing the sale of sweet nitre and other medicines containing
spirit.
A similar paragraph appears in the " Grocers' Review,"
and in other periodicals.
Under these circumstances of greater publicity I must
withdraw the statement I made when leaving you, namely,
that the eau de Cologne and essence of vanilla I purchased
from you would not be sent to the Customs House, and now
intimate that if I hear of another case of a shopkeeper
being warned by a Customs officer I shall send the articles
mentioned above, and also the two articles I purchased from
Messrs. Mackay & Son, to the Customs House, London, and
request the Secretary to cause you to be warned in the same
way. Samples will also be purchased from the President
of your Association and others.
Similar action will be taken in other towns where a
chemists' association puts pressure upon the authorities.
After a member had described the letter as " piffle," the
President asked for the opinion of the meeting, and after
some discussion it was decided to send the letter to the
trade Press, and also to the Inland Revenue authorities.
Messrs. Elbourne and Holroyd having been elected
members, the President called attention to the Shops
(No. 2) Bill, but it was finally resolved that the Association
should not do anything in regard to the matter until after
the second reading of the Bill, since the local Chamber of
Trade had sent up its recommendations and was prepared
to take action at any time.
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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
October 8, 1910
Medical Exhibition.
THE London Medical Exhibition, organised by "The
British and Colonial Druggist," is being held this
■week at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, S.W.
Despite the fact that this is the second medical exhibition
held in London this year, and that several well-known
firms have ceased showing, the exhibits are more numerous
than last year. The stands are laid out to attract and
interest the medical visitor, but, although the exhibits are
well arranged, there is, on the whole, a paucity of new
ideas. Pharmaceutical displays bulk largely, and these
and others of interest to our readers are described below.
Pharmaceutical Products.
Aerators, Ltd., are exhibiting the " Prana " carbon-
dioxide snow apparatus (for the rapid production of COs
caustics for nsevi, lupus, etc., treatment) and the
" Prana" apparatus for producing carbonic-acid baths.
The American Animal Therapy Co., Ltd., have a very
pretty flower-strewn exhibit, which draws visitors natur-
ally to inquire into the neatly packed capsules of Lymphoid
Compound (Lowenthal). After this unique method of
administering animal products orally is described, atten-
tion is drawn to the new lymph-serum (Lowenthal) in
ampoules and sterilised jars.
John Bell & Croyden, Ltd., show a model of their
sterilising chambers, which form a centre of attraction.
The drums containing the sterilised dressings and a varied
display of catheters also attract attention.
The Hygtenic Co. (1910), Ltd., are demonstrating the
advantages of their portable porcelain-topped syphon at
the same stand, which also carries a neat display of Droit-
wich brine-crystals and Nauheim bath-salts.
Burroughs Wellcome & Co. accord the place of honour
in their beautifully equipped exhibit to "Tabloid"
bismuth gauze, this new dressing having been found to
be particularly suited for uterine operations. Tabloid
and ampoule medication is well represented, as well as
" Vaporole " products. Testing outfits and first-aid
outfits, medicine chests and cases are examples of scien-
tific space-saving. A well-arranged display of fine
chemicals is also included in the exhibit.
Corbyn, Stacey & Co., Ltd., have a nice exhibit of
galenicals and pharmaceutical specialities.
_ Arthur H. Cox & Co. make formalin tablets a leading
line, the most recent of which is "Formarose" tablets (rose
flavour), a line protected at Is. 9d. each (cost, lis. 6d. per
dozen) which bid fair to become as popular as the better-
known " Cinnaform " tablets (cinnamon flavour). Masso-
lettes (the health milk bon-bon), Virogen (soluble casein
with glycerophosphates), and a host of varied-hued pills
and tablets are also displayed.
The Denver Chemical Manufacturing Co. are show-
ing Antiphlogistine, which they laconically recommend as
follows : " Hygroscopic, antiseptic. Apply hot and
thick."
Duncan, Flockhart & Co. make their bow to the medical
profession as producers of vaccines, which are made from
primary virulent cultures by Dr. Ian Struthers Stewart.
Pure anaesthetics are well represented, in common with a
well-arranged pharmaceutical display. Modern therapy is
the keynote of the exhibit, which includes physiologically
standardised tinctures and pressor principles (pituitary
body and suprarenal gland). Milled ointments, malt-
extract combinations, and a new ethereal soap containing
3 per cent, of iodine are also on view.
Fairchild Bros. & Foster have a representative ex-
hibit of their digestive products. Panopepton, in tall
stoppered show-jars, forces itself upon one's attention,
while numerous cartons containing peptogenic milk-
powder and pepsencia are also conspicuous in a display
containing numerous other digestive aids. The lecithin
and holadin treatment for diabetes is in the forefront of
the propaganda here.
Hedley & Co. (Leytonstone). Ltd.. are showing all
kinds of anaesthetics for the first time. This new company
have been known for years (under the old firm-name) as
makers of ethyl chloride, and they claim to be the only
makers of methyl chloride in this country. They now
manufacture chloroform, ethers, etc., as well, besides
packing various specialities such as menthol spray, acetone
spray (for nasal catarrh), dusting-powder, and tooth-
pow der.
The Hoffmann-La Roche Chemical-works, Ltd.,
make silver and black the predominant tone in their
artistic exhibit, which includes an educational display of
fine alkaloids and chemicals. Particularly noteworthy
are the huge crystals of guaiacol, while the display of
strychnine, caffeine, cocaine, and their salts is also re-
markable. Airol, digalen, thiocol, and secacornin are the
chief therapeutical agents whose properties are being
expounded.
H. & T. Kirby & Co., Ltd., are giving great promi-
nence to the " Kirby " feeding-cup, which only allows slow
administration of a predetermined amount of food.
Purgen (mild aperient), glycecols, colalin (bile principle),
compressed tablets, pills, and glycerin suppositories are
other special features.
Lundy, Wilson & Co. have a remedy for asthma, hay-
fever, croup, etc., on view which they name "Lalkala."
It is put up in paper form (for burning) and in cigarettes.
These are packed in boxes, which retail at 2s. per box.
As a proof that the smoking is not disagreeable, " Lal-
kala " cigarettes are said to be distinctly favoured by
lady patients.
Menley & James, Ltd., have an exhibit in which
Glidine and its combinations are in good evidence. Mr.
F. Crossley-Holland, F.C.S., who is in charge, is als»
expatiating upon the advantages of "Iodex," a stainless
non-irritating ointment containing free iodine.
Oppenheimer, Son & Co.'s exhibit is almost purely
pharmaceutical, pulverettes, palatinoids, liquors, and oint-
ments contributing to the effective display. Roboleine
and automatic oxygen-generators, including the " Oxin-
halator," are being given special attention.
Parke, Davis & Co. occupy a double stand with at
representative display of their multifarious products.
Vaccine therapy and tuberculin outfits (for the vorr
Pirquet, Moro, and Calmette reactions) are to the front,
while among the older remedial agents are cod-liver oil
and petroleum emulsions and hematic hypophosphites.
Hydrogen peroxide, " Glaseptic " nebulisers, adrenalin
and its combinations, hypodermic tablets and syringes,
are other special features. Lactone tablets and euthymol
preparations illustrate the more popular side of this highly
Technical exhibit
Parke's Drug-stores, Ltd., supply the unusual spec-
tacle of a retailer exhibiting to the medical profession. The
use of "Erik Hansen" brand of cod-liver oil as an easily
assimilable food is the object of this bright display, which
also includes malt-extract combinations and emulsion.
The Regulin Syndicate, Ltd., are putting forward
" Regulin " (cascara sagrada combined with agar-agar) as
an ideal remedy for constipation.
The Saccharin Corporation, Ltd., dilate upon the
advantages of their soluble local anaesthetic novocain,
which causes less irritation and possesses less toxic powers
than cocaine on injection, while it yields stable solutions
which are compatible with suprarenin. The uses of per-
genol, which yields with water a neutral solution contain-
ing hydrogen peroxide for sterilising instruments and in
general surgery, are also being explained.
Savory & Moore, Ltd., are food-specialists in good
repute with the laity and the medical profession. So
most visitors have a look at their exhibit to see what
"the latest" is. According to the lady-in-charge, the
most interest at the moment is in the peptonised-milk
combinations — with coffee, cocoa, chocolate, etc. These
are in predigested forms to make them acceptable to all
patients. The well-known Infants' Food, the " Valve-
less Feeder," " Fructole," "Savore," " Aperione " (a
synthetic purgative), and Savory Magnesia Compound are
also on view.
Stern & Co. have a full range of their Pumiline pine-
oil preparations, and their latest inhalation for influenza,
catarrh, etc. — Stern's Creosote Compound.
B. Francis Strtnger has a small but " taking " exhibit,
at which he initiates medical men and others into the
mysteries of " Nazene " and the nasal bath. This new
remedy is recommended on the principle that it is as im-
portant to keep our breathing apparatus clean and disin-
fected as to have our daily bath. " Nazene " is to be sold
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through chemists, and the retail price is 2s. 6c?. At the
same stall is to be seen Bellis's " Turtle Cup "—a nutrient
in tablet form, and also sold in Is. bottles.
James Woolley, Sons & Co., Ltd., typify elegant
pharmacy in their well-arranged exhibit. Jecoyol (egg
emulsion of cod-liver oil with glycerophosphates) is a pro-
minent feature, followed by Woolley's sanitary rose-
powder. "Phenoda" tooth-paste and Woolley's milk-
food for infants are other lines of increasing popularity.
The more medicinal novelties include lotio resorcin. cq.
and lotio refrigerans (Woolley), which are replacing the
more messy ointments ; and Ergoval, a liquid ergot extract
following the lines indicated by Mr. J. H. Franklin at the
recent British Pharmaceutical Conference (O. <L- D.,
July 30, p. 207). " Boval " trusses and the ''Woolley"
antiseptic spray are other items in this interesting display.
Wright, Layman & Umney, Ltd., fill one side of their
stand with a goodly display of Wright's coal-tar speciali-
ties, among which coal-tar soap and liquor carbonis deter-
gens predominate. The other side is given over to phar-
maceutical products, including miscible extracts, pills,
capsules, tablets, and essential oils. Rosettol, the new
synthetic rose oil, diffuses a sweet aroma around the
stand.
Disinfectants.
" The Lancet " analysis of " Cofectant " is a prominent
feature of the artistic exhibit made by Edward Cook &
Co., Ltd. The medical visitors are distinctly interested
in the various " Cofectant " forms and combinations.
Besides the ordinary disinfectant fluid, "Cofectant" is
shown for surgical use, and in a special quality which is
miscible with sea-water and saline solutions. There are
also " Cofectant " soaps, bath-tablets, ointments, mem-
broids, and lozenges. Mr. Thos. Alex. Cook is present a
good deal of the time, and he does not overlook the claims
of " Asepso," "Solace," and " Hygeso " for medical con-
sideration. An attractive, yet businesslike, show. The
non-toxicity of Cyllin is being impressed upon the medicos
who haunt the corner show of Jeyes' Sanitary Compounds
Co., Ltd. It is held to be a disinfectant combining
" the maximum of efficiency as a bactericide with the mini-
mum of causticity and toxicity to the higher forms of
life." It is presented in capsule, syrup, pastille, and in-
halant form for internal, and in a great variety of forms
for external, use. Newton, Chambers & Co., Ltd., are
illustrating the behaviour of their disinfectant Izal on
dilution with water and fluids containing organic matter
as compared with other disinfectants. The persistence of
the Izal emulsion and its concomitant germicidal activity
under all conditions are the points upon which stress is
laid. Maxsol, the disinfectant with a maximum of solu-
bility, surrounded by its satellites — maxsoline (maxsol
vaseline), mouth-wash, pate dentifrice, and toilet-soap —
are combined to form a pleasing display at the stand of
Maxsol, Ltd. Chas. Zimmermann & Co. devote their
space to displaying Lysol, Lysol soap, and Calogen tireless
fumigators. The latter takes the form of a cylinder of
potassium permanganate, chromic acid, and a sulphide,
which, on being placed in a pail with formaldehyde solu-
tion, generates a large quantity of moist formaldehyde
vapour.
Foods and Drinks.
Aplin & Barrett and the Western Counties
Creameries, Ltd., are interesting the medical profession
in St. Ivel cheese (lactic and lactic curd) and Ivelcon (the
St. Ivel consomme) at their dainty stall. The Bayer
Co., Ltd., are giving especial attention to the new pack-
ings of Somatose and Somatose Compound — Guycose,
Liquid Somatose, and Liquid Iron Somatose. Bovril,
Ltd., dispense tasty samples of their stimulating products ;
while Virol, Ltd., also show their flesh-forming and
fattening food, the ingredients of which are indicated.
The genesis of an absolutely pure cocoa is typified at the
neat stand occupied by Cadbury Bros., Ltd., where a
large jar of shelled cocoa-beans is accompanied by smaller
jars of Cadbury 's cocoa-essence and the by-product cocoa-
butter. Delicious dairy-milk chocolate and Bournville
chocolate are other delectable confections which are up-
holding the firm's reputation. Casein, Ltd., show their
specialities — Trumilk (full-cream milk-powder), Phos-
phova (eggs, milk, malt and sodium glycerophosphate),
and Vi-Casein (a purin-free nitrogenous food). The solu-
bility and palatability of their milk-powder are demon-
strated by ocular and gustatory means. Frame Food
Co., Ltd., are particularly strong on "Frame Food
Essence," their new powder for enriching ordinary foods
by supplying soluble albuminoids and organic mineral com-
pounds where required. Glaxo are demonstrating the
non-clotting character of their milk-food, which consists
of dessicated milk to which cream and lactose have been
added. The proteids are changed during the course of
preparation, so that when remade with boiling water no
dense clot is produced. Horlick's Malted Milk Co., in
addition to dispensing and demonstrating the preparation
of liquid samples of their well-known food, are exhibiting
a new feeder of the hygienic type with transparent teat.
The feature of the latter is the replacement of the usual
rubber valve by a grooved-glass stopper. A yellow colour-
scheme is the appropriate setting for the exhibits of Keen's
and Colman's mustards by Keen, Robinson & Co., Ltd.
The Colman sinapic specialities for medical use are
specially emphasised, as well, as Robinson's Groats for
infants and invalids. The Liebig's Extract of Meat
Co., Ltd., are regaling visitors with refreshing samples of
their liquid and solid nutriments, Nursing Oxo as a pre-
digested form of fluid beef extract without flavouring
being kept well to the front. Diabetic foods, containing
changed starch easily assimilable by diabetic patients, and
sugarless preserves are the principal exhibits of the
Manhu Food Co., Ltd. Richard Maurice is exhibiting
the Brusson Jeune bread for diabetics in various forms.
Besides there are nicely packed samples of gluten-treated
macaroni, vermicelli, semolina, and tapioca. The Miol
Manufacturing Co., Ltd., exhibit their special food-
product. Milk exhibits were also a feature. The London
Pure Milk Association's representative told us that
lactobacilline milk (the only one supplied by the authority
of Professor Metchnikoff) is being taken lip by many
chemists, who find it an additional profitable line.
Beaufoy & Co. have a handsome exhibit of their tonic
meat-and-malt wine. Bendle, Ltd., have little difficulty
in persuading investigators that Nutrovin — their patented
meat port — is a nutrient stimulant of considerable medi-
cinal value. Coleman & Co., Ltd., are enhancing the
popularity which Wincarnis already enjoys among the
medical profession. The "G.B." diabetes whisky (free
from sugar and added flavouring) is another kind of
stimulant for diabetes which can be sampled at George
Back & Co.'s stall. Hall's Wine and Keystone
Burgundy are staple lines exhibited by Stephen Smith
& Co., Ltd., but Carvino (meat-and-malt wine) occupies
the pride of place in a handsome display. Schweppes,
Ltd., devote their space almost entirely to fruit-cordials
and non-alcoholic wine. The British La Toja Co. ex-
hibit La Toja mud, salts, water, and soap. A small
exhibit of Friedrichshall water is made by C. Oppel &
Co. The virtues of St. Raphael natural tonic wine are
descanted upon by Findlater, Mackie, Todd & Co.,
Ltd., w:ho have also an exhibit of natural mineral waters,
among which Carabana (aperient) and Birresborn (spark-
ling table-water) are most prominent. The double stand
occupied by Ingram & Royle, Ltd., contains a compre-
hensive display of natural mineral waters, the principal
being Carlsbad (water and salt), Contrexeville. Hunyadi-
Janos, and Vichy. The attention of medical visitors is
being drawn to the necessity of noting the name of spring
when ordering Vichy waters in order to ensure that they
are derived from the State springs. Royal Mineral
Springs (Niederselters and Fachingen) have a small dis-
play of their natural mineral waters. Salutaris Water
Co. are showing their table-water, the "A.D." brand of
distilled water, and various beverages prepared with
distilled water. John Saxon & Co. exhibit Magi water, a
natural table-water with radio-active properties from the
Caledonia springs, Ontario. Vittel (Grande Source)
water has the distinction of being shown at three exhibits,
including a stand to itself, where the Societe Generalf.
des Eaux Minerales des Vittel (Vosges) are advocating
its use as a table-water and in gout and kidney affections.
A. S. Wehner & Co. are exhibiting their anti-obesity
remedy — Dalloff Tea.
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October 8, 1910
Miscellaneous.
James Barker claims to be the largest maker of vibra-
tory massage-machines in the world. The Barker
machine is being demonstrated to doctor and nurse, and
it is the kind of machine which chemists could sell.
Oxygen and oxygen apparatus comprise the exhibit of
the British Oxygen Co., Ltd. Clarke's Syphon Stove
Co. , Ltd. , have a nice assortment of their warming-appara-
tus. A "Syphon " stove in section demonstrates the devious
route of the gases before they emanate to give a pure
supply of warm air from which combustion products have
been removed by condensation. E. & R. Garrotjld show
their zymotic face-protector and operating-clothes. J. J.
Hicks specialises in clinical thermometers and sphyg-
mometers. Simplified-scale thermometers (such as the
"Lady Aberdeen" maternal clinical thermometer and
the Dr. Usher-Somers clinical) are mainly in evidence.
There is also a useful exhibit of white opal measuring-
glasses, urinometers, lactometers, etc.
Business Changes.
Mr. P. C. Cartledge, pharmaceutical chemist, has pur-
chased the business lately carried on by Mr. A. Jarvis,
chemist and druggist, at The Pharmacy, Parkstone,
Dorset.
Messrs. H. O. Huskisson & Co., manufacturing
•chemists, have left their offices and works at Swinton
Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C., for more com-
modious premises at Moon Street, Theberton Street, Isling-
ton, N. Street improvements are the reason for the firm
leaving their former premises, which they have occupied
since 1800.
OCTOBER MINOR EXAMINATIONS.
Examination in Edinburgh.
We have received from the Registrar of the Pharma-
ceutical Society of Great Britain the following list of
persons who at the recent Minor examination held in
Edinburgh were granted certificates of registration as
-chemists and druggists :
Baillic, J. D. M., Edinburgh.
Bastiek, Sydney, Liverpool.
Black, Walter C, Edinburgh.
Bryson, T. B., Dunfermline.
Caddell, Alexander F., Leith.
Cairns, George, Hawick.
Cornish, Hubert H., Bridgwater.
Criehton, Thomas, Edinburgh.
Dagg, Arthur, Tynemouth.
Dodds, George Coltherd, Leith.
Donaldson, Harry, Dunfermline.
Drummond, Robert G., Falkirk.
Dunlop. Margaret, Glasgow.
Ewart, William, Edinburgh.
Tester, Ernest C., Keswick.
Hodgkinson, Harold, Barrow-in-
Furness.
Laidlaw, Peter, Lasswade.
Examination in London.
The following is a list of persons who were granted Minor
Certificates by the Board of Examiners for England and
Wales :
How-
Long, J., Neweastle-on-Tyne.
Macbeth, Angus H., Glasgow.
McConnachie, .T. B., Hawick.
McGonigal, George C, Dundee.
MeNieol, Annie, Glasgow.
Nicoll, Joseph R., Edinburgh.
Riddell, George, Mintlaw.
Ridley, James F., Rothbury.
B-obbie, Charlotte Toung, Edin-
burgh.
Scott, A. E., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Stuart, George Paul, Cullen.
Teunon, William, Turriff.
Thompson, Ernest, Newcastle-on-
Tyne.
Waiker, Percy, Southport.
Wilson, John R., Halifax.
Anderson, George C. Reading
Benjamin, Leopold, Leeds.
Bennett, E. H. G., Holloway
Bennison, Wm., Stafford.
Brown, Geo. W., Altrincham
Cocking, Robert, Preston.
C'orringham, F. E., Portslade
Davies, Latimer G., Penarth.
Davis, Arthur H., Bournville.
Eoob, Arthur H., Peterborough.
Edmonds, Wm. John, Watford.
Ellis, Wm. Edwin John. Ilford.
Emery, Geo. Gordon, Fulhain.
Friek'er, Lionel, Bath.
Grantham, Reginald, York.
Green, Herbert John, Frome.
Hayne, Lynham R., Camelford.
Hearnshaw, R. M., Spalding.
Innes, Wm. R., Stalybridge.
James, Jas. Stanley, Clapham.
Jones, R. G.. Holyhead.
Kaiserman, Joseph, Manchester.
Lang-ton, R. H., Carnarvon.
Marmion, J. P., Birkenhead.
Marshall, Austen, Bloxwich.
Metcalfe, Daisy E. W.,
stead.
Midgley, Frank, Bradford.
Minter* E. F., Brightlingsea.
Moore, Percy E., Ilkeston.
Moss, Osmond Fredk., Burslem.
Murison, John T. G., Highgate.
Naylor, D. W., Chesterfield.
Owen, Gwladys, Llandudno.
Parker, C. S., Melbourne.
Purcell, John A., Audlem.
Rees, D. M., Ystrad Meurig.
Rowe, Robert, Morecambe.
Sadler, Alfred V. C, Oxford.
Saunders, Wm. G., Liverpool.
Scott, Arthur, Queensbury.
Stonnell, Edward. Luton.
Swift, Ed. H., Wath-on Dearne.
Symms, Frank, Tarporley.
Thomas, T. W., Aberdovey.
Thurmott, Fred. W., Wisbech.
Verity, T., Pateley Bridge.
Wateri. E.. Grange-over-Sands.
Whitelev, F. W., Ripponden.
Widgerv. A. E., St. John's Wood.
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f card or telephone who are the makers or agents of the articles
[mentioned in the following inquiries received since our last
issue :
48/101. " Nazaseptic granules."
54/31. "Bimbo" food: makers.
48/10. " Pharyngaseptic granules."
49/70. Eureka Chemical Co. : address.
49/73. " Rochite " insecticides: supply.
51/42- " Pepita " : makers or suppliers.
55/36. Dr. PaUaceps nail-stone: makers.
54/60. " Aero Spray Atomizers " : supply.
49/16 " Grip " cement : makers or agents.
52/5. " Aosta Salts," proprietors or agents.
51/41. " Eau Bonnes": makers or agents.
51/4. " Martoni bath-salts" : makers or agents.
55/70. " Manola Food " : wholesale supply in this country.
56/15. Austen's "Forest-Flower Cologne": British im-
porters.
INFORMATION SUPPLIED.
During the past week we have answered inquiries regarding the
following articles. The information will be repeated to any other
inquirers who send to the Department a stamped and addressed
envelope for the purpose.
Alpa tonic: makers (49/49).
Anhydrous ammonia : makers (48/48).
Autotherm flask: agents (48/56).
" Avarin " : makers (52/74).
Celluloid crude: Continental makers (39/14).
Caffyn's liquor carnis: proprietors (45/42).
Electros (trade) : supply (53/61).
Formic acid tablets: supply (49/28).
" Frigiline " : makers (52/73).
Glycerin (Twitchell process) : supply (54/6).
"Humane" cattle-killer: maker (48/11).
"Iglodine" : proprietors (49/14).
Invalid's food-mincer: supply (48/67).
Iodolysin: makers (51/44). , ,
Kerfoot & Co.'s address (New Zealand .inquiry) (53/14)..
" Kleno" : makers (45/32).
Lactagol (Pearson) : makers and agents (53/48).
Liquorice-juice: direct importers (49/31).
Maltzyme and cascara : makers (48/31).
Machinery for packing eeidlitz-powders (47/3).
JVlassolin (for painting the nostrils) (47/21).
"Mortem" insect-powder (49/73).
"Mortine" insecticides (49/73).
" New Century " tooth-paste : makers (51/4). _ , ..
North British Rubber Co.'s address (Australasian inquiry)
(53/14).
Pine-bath extract : supply (54/14).
"Ratto": supply (48/10).
Spirit of Stockholm tar: wholesale supply (47/67).
Stationery: wholesale supply (49/16).
Talcum-powder tins: American makers (53/52).
Thvolein : makers and agents (48/31).
" Tusco" dentifrice: proprietors (54/9).
Tuscon^Salben pilaster: maker (54/9).
" Vel-Vel " cream : makers (50/32).
Veno's cough-cure : makers (54/15).
Vei-non-Harcourt chloroform-inhaler: makers (49/29).
Weighing-machines (large) : makers (50/70).
Mb. Wm. Alfred Jones, of 18a Renshaw Street, Liverpool,
has just returned from a successful business tour of the United
States, Canada, and the West Indies on behalf of the Original
Antiseptic Pastille, Ltd.
Index Folio 548
October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
47
Observations and Reflections.
By Xrayser II.
The Manufacture in Bond
of alcoholic preparations, which is
looming in the near future apparently, will be a step of
great significance to the trade in pharmaceuticals,
essences, perfumery, and perhaps other branches of in-
dustry. The only insuperable difficulty, so far as I can
judge, to the establishment of separate bonded laboratories
attached to manufactories is that the necessary expense
would be quite prohibitive to the small man. For a large
wholesale house the saving of interest on capital and on
the loss of alcohol might be sufficient to recoup the manu-
facturer for the extra outlay in connection with super-
vision which the Excise would require to enforce ; but any
reform that is to be generally acceptable must not operate
unjustly on the small manufacturer, and hence it seems to
me that the establishment of
A Large Bonded Laboratory
to which all manufacturers
could have access on fro rata terms is the likeliest solution
of the difficulty. No doubt there are disadvantages in
having to use a common laboratory, and some manufac-
turers might object to jeopardise their secret processes by
making use of it ; but, on the other hand, this is eminently
a case where the public good must be the deciding factor,
and I take it that the public bonded laboratory is the best
solution of the problem. In view of the considerable
saving all round if duty-free spirit can be utilised, and
the probability of our being able to compete on more equal
terms in the world's markets, and thus to retain and en-
large our export trade in alcoholic goods, it is to be hoped
that the Excise authorities will lend a willing ear to the
proposal.
"fhe^ Letter T
has now been reached in the " Oxford English
Dictionary," and the first portion is unusually rich in
words interesting to the pharmacist. Five of these are
either Arabic in origin or have come to us through that
language. Perhaps the most important is tartar (argol),
which with its numerous family "jostles" (as the editor
says) "through ten columns with the progeny of Tartary
and Tartarus." Needless to say, the three groups are
quite distinct in origin. Tartar, though we got it through
Arabic, may be Egyptian ; its first appearance in English
is in Chaucer. The first quotation for tartaric acid is
dated 1810 ; up till then the forms tartarous and tartareous
were in use. Taraxacum, originally Persian, however,
also comes to us through Arabic ; it means literally " bitter
herb," and first occurs in a Latinised form as tarasacon
in a manuscript of 1189. Tarragon (Arum Dracunculus)
is Arabic, but reaches us through Byzantine Greek and
mediaeval Latin in two forms, tragonia and tarchon, the
first English quotation given being from Elyot (1538) :
" Tragonia, an herbe now callid Taragon, late sene in this
realme, whiche hath a tast like gynger." Tamarind is
Arabic tamr-hindi (date of India) ; and talc Arabic talq,
but some authorities think the latter originally Persian.
All the Foregoing
are of extreme interest as showing our
indebtedness to Arabia for much of our knowledge.
Tannic acid dates from 1834, when it was suggested by
Pelouze as more suitable than tannin ; the latter first
occurs in English, as tanin, in 1802. Tansy has an in-
teresting but somewhat obscure history. It is from
tanesie (Old French), which is said to be from the Greek
athanasia, immortality, a name which refers to the lasting
nature of the flowers. Tanacetum is a Latinised form of
tanesie. The article on tacamahac does not entirely
settle the question of the identity of this resin with
caranna. Several species of Bursera, Protium, and Calo-
phyllum, as well as Populus Balsamifera, are referred to
as its sources. The resin from the balsam poplar is dis-
tinguished from the others. Articles of much interest on
tamarash, tar, and tarantula and its derivatives can only
be barely mentioned ; one of the longest in the section is
that on tea. The original pronunciation of this word
(tay) occurs in poetry down to 1762, and still persists in
Ireland and in some of our dialects.
Diet and Fatigue.
It is now well understood by physiologists
that the chief cause of fatigue is auto-intoxication, the
result of the absorption of toxins or poisons produced in
the decomposition of food in the intestines. The bacteria
which are the cause of decomposition feed mainly on nitro-
genous diet, and the question therefore arises whether a
reduction in the consumption of proteins, of which animal
food is the chief example, will not also lessen the amount
of the fatigue-producing toxins. This question is still
under debate; but a recent report of the U.S. National
Conservation Commission states that the trend of physio-
logical opinion is in favour of reducing the consumption
of proteins. Experiments on vegetarians and meat-eaters-
in the research laboratory of the University of Brussels
have shown that the former are superior in point of en-
durance, and that they recuperate more rapidly from
fatigue than the latter. Whether this is due to the lower
protein diet is now being investigated, but in any event it
indicates that other causes than long hours may be
responsible for physical deterioration.
William the Porter.
His Philosophisings as recorded by Bruce Logan.
XIV.
" f\ H, ye mustn't worry, lad," said William to me, as I
\) finished relating my recent verbal tussle with a
customer.
" Ye mustn't mind at all. Some men be for all t' world
like a fully-charged syphon. They're all right if they be
left alone, but it takes terr'bly little pressure to 6end 'em
off fizzing and spluttering all over t' place."
"Ay, but ye mustn't take it seriously, 'cause all t' fizz
goes out of 'em very quickly, and they're quite as flat as
can be."
" Ay, an' they're not alius t' worst kind of men either ;
they're a bit fully charged with unworked force, an' that's
about all."
" Now, there be t' master himself — he goes off worse
than any syphon ; but it just be sheer force in t' man as
can't get an outlet any other way."
"Ay, and ye'U never find a weakling or a really sneaky
sort o' chap going off like that. But there be a danger in
it, lad, 'cause a man can explode as a syphon can ; an'
when t' natural forces in a man explode there usually be
serious trouble."
"Ay, an' that shows t' wisdom of alius keeping full
control of yerself. Ye see it all through t' workings of
Nature. Power must be kept under hand ; out o' control
it's terr'bly apt to be dangerous, and t' stronger it is t'
more dangerous it becomes."
" Nay, nay, I didn't start this bit of a talk at all. But
now that we have got on t' subject I might as well tell
ye that ye sometimes fizz a bit yerself. Ay, and if ye just
bear.it in mind next time ye feel like letting go at t'
errand-lad — well, I think t' lad '11 do his work better, an;
ye'U run less risk o' exploding some day."
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OCTOBEE 8, 1910
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Bonded Warehouses.
The Board of Customs and Excise have introduced a new-
principle into the bonded-warehouse system affecting what
may be called the " life" or existence of a warehouse. In
future official approval will only be given. for a specified
term of years, at the end of which time the Crown locks
may be removed, or a further extension given for another
set period of time. It is not difficult to see the motive
underlying this new departure, inasmuch as official re-
approval means a systematic raising of questions and ex-
amination of bases justifying the further use of every par-
ticular bonded warehouse in the kingdom. Owing to shift-
ing of population, of trade, and other causes, bonded ware-
houses fall into disuse and may justify the Revenue
authorities closing the "floors," vaults, etc., or merg-
ing them with others in the same neighbourhood.
Practically the same trouble and routine will be
entailed in re-approval as in the original instance of
securing approval. Whether this new official regula-
tion is a kind of pruning-knife in view of possible ex-
tensions of the bonding principle with the performance
of additional trade operations therein (such as are now
being asked for by pharmaceutical manufacturers), time
alone can tell, but this systematic expiry of licence, so to
speak, and overhauling of every bonded warehouse, seems to
foreshadow a possible increase in the future. The Commis-
sioners of Customs and Excise may go so far as to re-
approve certain warehouses without fixing a time-limit, but
the circumstances of each warehouse will have to warrant
the Board taking this exceptional course. The new regula-
tion will bring into use two kinds of new bonds, one where
the sureties are individuals, and the other where the surety
is a guarantee society. Seeing that these bonds, with the
sufficiency of the obligor and sureties, constitute the legal
instrument of the Crown for recovery of duty and adminis-
tration of Revenue interests, the wording, scope, and proper
drawing-up of these documents are matters of the greatest
importance to the Revenue authorities. Once a year the
sufficiency of the obligor and sureties is inquired into and
reported on by the principal official in charge to the chief
office, and any cause affecting the security of the bond is
at once notified. The owner of a bonded warehouse or
warehouse-keeper and the sureties have to bind themselves
to stand as security should duty be lost. Revenue
officials thus possess a certain reserve to fall back upon — a
principle which, if applied to trade, would kill bad debts
and give Official Receivers little or no work to do.
Index Folio 550
October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
49
Opening of the Session.
This week is notable among all the weeks of the year
as the beginning of a new session of the medical and
science schools. Thousands of young men and women in
London and the other educational centres of the country
have begun or renewed their studies for that equipment
which will give them the ability, as proved in examina-
tions, to earn their living as medical practitioners, dentists,
engineers, chemists, and, we were going to say, pharma-
cists, but, after all, the reopening of the School of
Pharmacy in Bloomsbury Square comes almost two months
after other schools of pharmacy have commenced their
educational year. Nevertheless, the opening of the School
of Pharmacy simultaneously with the Medical Session is
an event in the pharmaceutical year, and an incident
which deserves attention — indeed, on the present occasion
commands it, for the "old man eloquent," Mr. David
Howard, delivered an address which, for richness in
epigram, originality of thought, and piquancy of utter-
ance, has never been excelled in the Bloomsbury lecture-
theatre. The occasion is also a reminder of the efforts
made by Jacob Bell and his associates about seventy
years ago to place the practice of pharmacy on the same
footing as the practice of medicine. These efforts have
signally failed, so far as statutory recognition is con-
cerned, as Parliament has not given to those who are
registered under the Pharmacy Acts of Great Britain
those professional duties for which the examinations con-
ducted by the Pharmaceutical Society are a test of
efficiency to perform. Irish pharmacists have been more
fortunate in this respect, for they have since 1875 had
a practical monopoly of the dispensing of medical pre-
scriptions. This fact is of interest in connection with
the efforts to place the practice of pharmacy on a footing
with the practice of medicine, for in Ireland we do not
find that parity of status in the profession of medicine and
pharmacy which our forefathers anticipated would occur.
It is apparent, indeed, that higher education in pharmacy
and the extended curricula which are provided by the
School of Pharmacy at Bloomsbury can no longer be re-
garded as making for professional status, but are taken
for the good that is in them, and as special equipment for
the more specialised practice associated with the higher-
class dispensing businesses, hospital dispensaries, and the
laboratories of manufacturing and wholesale houses. It
is also believed that a course at the " Square" gives men
and women who take it and qualify an entree to official
circles and a prospect of sharing in those little offices
and opportunities for distinction or profit which are
indissoluble from a statutory body with steady income.
It is not now claimed that the only perfect pharmacist
is a "Square" man. The Society has had several
presidents and many examiners who have been trained
in other schools, which now train more than 80 per cent,
of the candidates for the qualifying examination. The
fact that the " Square " School trains so small a propor-
tion of those who are registered as chemists and druggists
may be taken as an index of the extent to which
there is need for the course of instruction given
there. Less, than one out of half a dozen who qualify
require it. Nevertheless, the Council of the Society is now
considering how it can compel all to go through such a
course of training as is provided in the " Square" School,
and a handful of "Square" men have committed them-
selves to impose upon the whole trade academic conditions
of training which history has proved to be unnecessary for
the retail drug-trade. It seems to us that their know-
ledge of the conditions of the business is limited to the
west side of Bloomsbury Square, and that they have
shut their eyes to the teaching of history. The intentions
of Jacob Bell were good, and the school which he estab-
lished has borne fruit in the production of a class of
higher-trained pharmacists, competent to perform those
duties which call for scientific knowledge and expertness
in laboratory operations. But only a fraction of those
who go through the "Square" get the opportunity of so
exercising their qualifications. The rest return to the
comparatively prosaic art of shopkeeping, in which
chemists and druggists are so useful to the community.
The experience of generations of them, and of 90 per
cent, of those now in business, is that neither the business
nor the public call for that higher training which is urged
by the hyper-curriculumists. Apparently the Council is
committed to do something in that direction ; but it is
earnestly to be desired that the wisest counsels may pre-
vail, so that the change provided by the 1908 Act may be
introduced gradually and with the fullest recognition of
the conditions of the business and the requirements of
the men who follow it.
Essential Oils.
The revision by Messrs. Chas. A. Hill and John C.
Umney of their suggested factors for essential oils to be
included in the next British Pharmacopoeia gives us an
opportunity of contrasting their figures with those of the
other Pharmacopoeias of most recent dates — French, Swiss,
and the United States. Refractive indices are not given
in any Pharmacopoeia (except in the French Codex for
turpentine) ; but it is understood that the forthcoming
edition of the German Pharmacopoeia will prescribe this
factor where it is useful in determining the purity, or
otherwise, of any substance. Optical rotation is given in
the French Codex and in the United States Pharmacopoeia,
and in the Swiss Pharmacopoeia the determination of these
constants is not prescribed ; but they are given in a table
in the Appendix as information only. Before describing
the several essential oils, the French and Swiss Pharma-
copoeias give particulars of the general tests applicable to
all essential oils, and intended to reveal the presence of
the more common adulterants. The following are brief
resumes :
Feench Codex.
A drop of essential oil on filter-paper should not leave on
evaporation a fatty stain. Twenty-five c.c. of oil is to be dis-
tilled on a water-bath for fifteen to twenty minutes, nothing
should distil over (alcohol). If there should be a distillate, add
to it 0.1 to 0.15 gram of carbonate of potassium and a few drops
of a solution of iodine in potassium iodide, then heat on a.
water-bath. If the liquid contains alcohol, its presence will
be perceptible by the formation of iodoform. Another test
for alcohol consists in the introduction of a few c.c. of oil in a.
long and narrow well-dried test-tube, closed with a plug of
cotton-wool containing a crystal of fuchsin. On warming the
oil the cotton-wool will assume, a red colour should alcohol
be present, due to the solution of fuchsin in the condensed
alcohol. This' is a very delicate test for revealing traces of
alcohol. Another test mentioned is to shake equal volumes
of oil and glycerin in a graduated test-tube and allow the
mixture to stand for some hours. If alcohol is present, the
volume of the mixture will show a decrease.
The Swiss Pharmacopoeia.
Attention is drawn to the presence of alcohol, turpentine,
benzol, chloroform, mineral and fatty oils. The tests for
alcohol are substantially the same as those in the Codex. Oil
of turpentine, benzol, and chloroform are recognisable by
their boiling-points when the oil is submitted to a fractionated
distillation, and also by the following chemical reactions :
Oil of turpentine by the formation of crystals of pinene nitroso-
chloride when treated with glacial acetic acid, amyl nitrite,
and hydrochloric add ; benzol by the formation of nitrobenzol
when treated with nitric acid; and chloroform by the
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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
October 8, 1910
formation of benzo-iso-nitrile when heated with solution of
potassium hydroxide and aniline. Mineral oils separate and
appear on the surface on the addition of alcohol to an adul-
terated sample of essential oil ; after washing the separated
portion with alcohol, its indifference to alcoholic solution of
potassium hydroxide, sulphuric and nitric acid should be
tested. Fatty oils remain as a residue on evaporation ; they
are recognised by saponification with potassium hydroxide,
and when heated in a test-tube with potassium bisulphate
they produce acrolein
In the table on p. 51 the data proposed by Messrs. Hill
and TJmney (as revised) are compared with the demands of
the French, Swiss, and United States Pharmacopoeias, the
optical rotation alluded to in the Appendix to the Swiss
Pharmacopoeia being also included. Temperatures are in
degrees Centigrade. Unless otherwise stated, Messrs. H;ll
and Umney's data refer to a temperature of 15.5° C. for
specific gravities, 20° C. for optical rotation, and 25° C.
for refractive index. In the case of the United States
all temperatures, unless otherwise stated, refer to 25° C.
In the case of the French and Swiss Pharmacopoeias the
temperature understood is 15° C. In the table Sp. Gr.=
Specific gravity, O.R. = Optical rotation, R.I. = Refractive
index, Sol. = Solubility in alcohol (90 per cent.). Per-
centage in the Codex and Swiss Pharmacopoeia refers to
weight.
Legislation as to Proprietaries.
"The Lancet" of October 1 contains an unusually
frank statement in regard to the proposals for a Royal
or Departmental Commission to inquire into the sale of
proprietary medicines. While sympathising with them,
our contemporary says :
" We have been recently told by a medical man, a member
of Parliament and warm supporter of the Government, that
the medical profession is suspect in the House of Commons
• as being ' out for fees,' so that if any public meeting were
organised under professional auspices the Government
would look at it askance. Given the public meeting and its
committee mainly of laymen, we would again suggest for
consideration a remedy which we have upon many previous
occasions put forward in these columns — namely, the
licensing of all quacks of whatever shade. No one could say
that this would be a legal recognition of quackery, for
quackery is perfectly legal now. Neither could it be argued
that the possession of a licence would imply a Government
guarantee of the soundness of the treatment."
A simultaneous issue of the "British Medical Journal"
gives analyses of certain rheumatism cures, and in com-
menting upon them the "B.M.J." says its disclosures
furnish " further evidence of the necessity for dealing
with this evil by legislation." In view of " The Lancet's "
statement about parliamentary feeling towards medical
proposals, there seems little likelihood of the legislation
being supported by the Government.
The Dentists Bill.
The formation of the Chemists' Dental Society is justified
by an editorial article in the journal of the British Dental
Association of October 1. " W. H. C," the writer of it,
did not start out with that object in view, but before he
finishes the five-page article entitled "Chemist and Druggist-
Dentists " he clearly demonstrates that any combination to
checkmate the actions of such persons as he has been justi-
fied. In his article " W. H. C." displays the irascibility
and peevishness of a spoilt child who cannot get what he
wants. The first two pages of the article are an attempt
to poke fun at those chemists and druggists who are en-
deavouring to protect their interests as regards dental
matters by the formation of a society. The article then
proceeds to say that
" if a limitation or prohibition of irregular practice . . . is to
be bought by any measureof 'consideration,' . . . those already
d:K only no™Mlly) m a definite and digtinct
nWJ®- I degree of recognition and protection, cannot
»wt hi" f°rm^VauPeriS iov an exemption which might justi-
ably be accorded by Parliament to those with no other means-
of livelihood. . . . But lines must needs be drawn and'
boundaries set between affiliated spheres of work."
This practically amounts to a refutation of the principle
laid down in Section 6 (c) of the Dentists Act, which recog-
nised the practice of dentistry " either separately, or in,
conjunction with the practice of medicine, surgery, or phar-
macy." " W. H. C." then becomes abusive without doing
harm to chemists, and in the concluding page of the article-
makes the following extraordinary statement :
. " ^e take the opportunity of remonstrating respecting the
intent of a widespread quotation of certain of our editorial
remarks upon the Draft Bill, the principles of which were
amrmed by a majority of members assembled at the annual
general meeting in Liverpool. Our description of this con-
fidential document, to the effect that it was but in a transi-
tional stage has been represented in several quarters as an
admission that the Association was contemplating a ' change
of front ' or ' climbing down.' So far from this being the-
case, we are driven to point out that the provisional draft of
the proposed Bill has not even been published in our pagesr
but was merely sent out to members onlv, for their information
in its discussion. The publication of 'it, or quotations from-
it, have been absolutely unauthorised and unofficial."
It is, in our opinion, rather late in the day to try to relieve
the British Dental Association of the attempt at legislation.
The fact of the matter is that the Draft Bill has been
received with such scorn, and the high aspirations of persons-
of the " W. H. C." type are so much at variance with the
needs of the case, and so unlikely to receive support in the
highest quarters, that the promoters feel that they are-
beaten.
Poisoning Cases*
Eight fatalities, including one misadventure, have beera
reported since our last issue.
Carbolic Acid. — At Landhead, near Ballymoney, co.
Antrim, Anne Murray (8) died from intentional self -adminis-
tration of carbolic-acid poison.
Chlorodyne taken in accidental overdose caused the death
of a Highbury clerk named James Percy Humphrey (66).
Oxalic Acid was used to ensure self-destruction by James-
Buss (58), sawyer, Catford. — At an inquest on Alice Mary
Stupple, who committed suicide at Heme Bay by taking-
oxalic -acid, Mr. Harold Pyman, chemist and druggist.
14 Promenade Central, Heme Bay, said he supplied a woman
recently with a pennyworth of oxalic acid crystals for cleaning-
purposes, but he could not say that deceased was the customer.
He gave her the usual warning. Mr. Thomas Boots Corn-
foot, chemist, of Mortimer Street, also deposed that deceased
had purchased a pennyworth of laudanum at his pharmacy.
Dr. Bowes said he found sufficient traces of oxalic acid in the
stomach to cause death, but he could not find any laudanum.
Salt of Lemon. — At Paddington an inquiry was commenced;
on October 3 into the death of Bertha Duncan, aged twenty-
seven, the wife of Mr. Alexander Duncan, chemist and drug-
gist, 2 Chichester Street, Paddington, London, W., who died1
from salt of lemon poisoning. Mr. Duncan stated that he-
knew of no wrong or anxiety which his wife had, except that
she had suffered from consumption. The inquiry was ad-
journed.
Spirit of Salt.—~Ellen Hughes (44), the wife of a Great
Northern railway employee at Barnet, committed suicide by
taking spirit of salt. — Alfred Miles, wholesale florists'
assistant, died in the King's College Hospital from corrosive-
poisoning due to this acid. — The self-inflicted death at Burton-
of Thomas Adryan Asbury (49), who was out of work, was due
to the same poison. At the inquest Dr. Buchanan said the
bottle from which deceased drank contained a mixture of
hydrochloric acid and zinc chloride.
" The Peesceibeb " for October is the largest number that
Mr. Thomas Stephenson, 137 George Street, Edinburgh (the
editor), has issued, and it contains several notes of special'
interest to pharmacists — e.g. " No. 606," Rhu6 toxicodendron,
urea-quinine as an anaesthetic, two pages on tropical diseases,,
dental notes, therapeutic summary, etc.
Index Folio 552
OCTOBEE 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
53
Oleum
Anisi
.Aurantii
"Cajuputi
<Carui
Caryophylli
•Cinnamomi
(Ceylon)
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
- Aaethol
content.
I cong.- pt.
Vremeltng-pt.
( Sp. Gr.
J O.R.
I B.I-
C Sp. Gr.
| O.R.
-, R.I.
^ Cineol
I Sp. Gr.
J O.R.
I R.I.
I Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
Bugenol
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
Hill and Uraney
French
lEuca^pti
Juniperi
ILavanilulce
ILimonis
."Mentha?
pip.
IMvristica;
llosffi
Cinnani:
1 aldehyde
f Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
8ol.
I Cineol
f Sp. Gr.
O.R.
I R.I.
I Sol.
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
( Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
| Esters
/ Sp. Gr.
O.R.
0.975 to 0.99D (20° C.)
- 2° to + 1°
1 552 to 1.558
1 in 3
at least 80 % of oil should
distil between 225° and
235° C.
about 10°
15°
0.847 to 0.854
-f 92° to + 99°
1.472 to 1.478
0.919 to 0.930
not more than - 4°
1.460 to 1.467
4.5 c.c. from 10 c.c. oil
0.91O to 0.920
+ 75° to + 82°
1.485 to 1.487
1.047 to 1.070
1.528 to 1.540
1 in 3 ale. (70%)
at least 80%
1.000 to 1.040
- 0°.5 to - 1°
1.572 to 1.582
1 in 3 to 4 ale. (70 %)
55 to 75 %
0.910 to 0.930
+ 10° to - 10°
1 in 5 ale. (70 %)
at least 55 %
0.960 to 0.990
+ 6° to + 20°
1.525 to 1.534
linl
0.862 to 0.890
- 3° to - 15°
1.472 to 1.488
1 in 4 ale. (95 %)
0.883 to 0.900
- 3° to - 10°
1 in 3 ale. (70 %)
to 11 % English ; not
less than 30 % foreign
0.857 to 0.860
+ 58° to + 64°
R.I.
1.474 to 1.476
Citral
3 5 %
Sp. Gr.
0.900 to U°920
O.R.
- 20° to - 35°
R.I.
Menthol
50 %
Sp. Gr.
0.870 to 0.920
O.R.
+ 13° to + 30°
R.I.
1.474 to 1.484
Sol.
1 in 3
Sp. Gr.
(30°) 0.854 to 0.862
O.R.
- 2° to - 4°
R.I.
(25°C.)1.45R to 1.465
me'.ting-pt.
20° to 2i.5°
Santali
ftinapis
volatile "
Terebinth-
ina> rect.
Tliymi
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
Santalol.
Sp. Gr.
distils
between
O.lt.
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
distils
between
Sp. Gr.
O.R.
R.I.
Sol.
Phenols
0.895 to 0.920
0° to -f 15°
1.463 to 1.470
1 in 1 ale. (90 %)
10 % borneol, and at least
i % bornyl acetate
0.973 to 0.985
- 16° to - 20°
1.498 to 1.508
1 in 6 ale. (70 %) 20° C.
90 %
1.018 to 1.023
148J and 156°
0.860 to 0.870
1.465 to 1.4E0
160° and 130°
0.920 to 0.950
slightly hwogyrate
1.480 to 1.495
1 in 2 ale. (80 %)
not less than 25%
Swiss
United States
Pimp. 0.980 to 0.990 (17° C.)
slightly laevogyrate
1 in 3
80 to 90 %
18° to 14°
0.848 to 0.853
at least + 95° (15° to 20°)
1.055 to 1.C68
slightly la?vogyrate
1 in 2 ale. (70 %)
70 to 85 %
1.024 to 1.040
slightly iKvogyrate
in all proportions of ale.
(90 %)
65 to 75 %
0.910 to 0.930
slightly dextrogyrate
in all proportions ale. 95 %
0.865 to 0.885
turbid solution 1 in 5
tile. 95 */^)
0.882, to 0.S95
1 in 3 ale. (70 %)
30 to 40 %
0.857 to 0.862
dextrogyrate + 57° to +
67° (15° to 20°)
(the deflection of a freshly
distilled sample should
not be less than the
above figures by 5°)
0.895 to 0.920
(20°) 0.855 to 0.865
becomes cloudy at 23.5°
0.930 to 0.920
dextrogyrate
1 in $ ale. (90%)
0.975 to 0.985
-17° to -19°
1 in 5 ale. (70%) 20° C.
90 to 98%
1.017 at 10° C.
boils at 150°
0.864
-40°.32
1.4648 (25° C.)
boils about 156°
0.909 to 0.950
1 in 3 of a mixture of 100
ale. (90 %) and 14 water
30%
0.984 to 0.994
up to -2° (25° C.)
1 in 5 (1 in 200 ale. 60 p.c.)
15°
0.920 to 0.930
up to -2°. 40
0. 905 to 0.915
-{- 70° to + 85°
1. (540 to 1.070
up to — 1°.10
1 in 2 ale. (70%)
85%
Cassia oil
0.965 to 0.977
-f 12° to + 24°
in all proportions
0.860 to 0.885
to - 11°
1 in 10
0.882 to 0.895
- 3° to - 9°
1 in 3 ale. (70 %)
at least 35 %
0.857 to 0.861
+■ 58° to + 65° (20° C.)
0.900 to 0.920
50 % at least
(20°) 0.855 to 0.870
up to - 4° (Bulgarian)
can still be dropped at 20°
0.900 to 920
+ 0°.45 to + 15°
1 in 1 ale. (90%)
0.975 to 0.985
- 17° to - 19°
1 in 5 a1c. (70%) 20° C.
90% at least
1.016 to 1.030
147° and 152°
0.860 to 0.871
-23° to - 40° for French
up to + 14°. 17 for
American
155° and 1623
0.900 to 0.935
about — 3°
1 in h ale. (90%) ; 1 in 3 ale.
(80%)
20% at least
0.975 to 0.988
up to -2° (25° C.)
1 in 5
not below 15° C.
0.842 to 0.846
not less than + 95° (25- C.)
0.915 to 0.925
not over -2° (25° C.)
not less than 55%
0.900 to 0.910.
+ 70° to + 80° (25° C.)
1.040 to 1.060
I in 2 ale. (70%)
80%
Cassia oil
0.905 to 0.925
not more than 4- 10° (25° C.)
I in 3 ale. (70 %)
50%
0.953 to 0.973
1 in 1
O.860 to 0.880
0.875 to 0.910
I in 3 ale. (70 %)
0.851 to 0.855
not less than + £8° (25° C.)
(the freshly distilled oil should
not differ from the above
figure by mora than 2°)
4%
0.894 to 0.914
20° to - 33° (25° C.)
50%
0.884 to 0.921
dextrogyrate
1 in 3
0.855 to 0.865
Congealing-point, between 18°
and 22° C.
Saponification value 10 to 17
0.894 to 0.912
not more than -f 15° (25° C.)
about 1 in I ale. (90 %)
2.5 % bornyl acetate, and 10 %
total borneol
0.935 to 0.980
- 16° to - 20° (23° C.)
1 in 5 ale. (70 %)
not less than 90 %
1.013 to 1.020
148° and 152°
0.860 to 0.865
15:° and 162°
O.90O to 0.930
not more than - 3° (25° C.)
1 in J ale. (93 %) ; 1 in 1 to 2 ale.
(80 %)
at least 20 %
The French Codex describes anise oil from Pimpinella
and from Illicium under two separate titles, but the text
of both monographs is almost identical. The eame specific
Index Folio
gravity is given for both oils, except that the temperature
in the case of Illicium oil is given at 15° C.
553
52
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
OCTOBEB 8, 1910
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
COUNCIL-MEETING.
The Council met on Wednesday for the first time since
August. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Park were the only absentees.
The President welcomed the return of Mr. Newsholme after
his recent indisposition. The finances were reported to be
in a satisfactory condition. The Benevolent Fund Committee
recommended that in December the list of annuitants be in-
creased by three. The Vice-President, on behalf of the
Education and Examinations Committee, said that a cur-
riculum scheme is now -almost complete, and will be submitted
to members of the Society during the coming winter. Mr.
White and Mr. Peck submitted a lengthy report on the Inter-
national Congress of Pharmacy at Brussels, and this gave
rise to a discussion, in the course of which were Mr. Gifford
gave expression to views which were resented by the President.
The Council met at 17 Bloomsbury Square, London,
W.C., on Wednesday, October 5, at 11 a.m., Mr. J. F.
Harrington (President) in the chair. There were also
present Messrs. W. L. Currie (Vice-President), W. H.
Gibson (Treasurer), C. B. Allen. A. R Campkin. W. G.
Cross, J. H. Cuff, F. J. Gibson, R. L. Gifford, D. Gilmour,
Albert Hagon, A. E. Hobbs, E. T. Neathercoat, G. T. W.
Newsholme, F. A. Rogers, C. Symes, R. C. Walshaw,
Edmund White, and J. Rymer Young.
The minutes of the last Council-meeting were briefly
outlined by the Secretary, and approved. The
President then said that before the business of the
meeting was proceeded with he desired, on behalf of the
members of the Council, to say how very pleased they
were to see Mr. Newsholme back with them. (Applause.)
They had all missed him from recent meetings, and were
delighted to find that he was once more able to participate
in the business of the Council. (Applause.)
Mr. Newsholme briefly thanked the members for the
generous and kindly reception.
The Chairman intimated letters of regret for absence
from Mr. Harrison and Mr. Park, adding that Mr.
Harrison's health prevented him attending, while Mr.
Park's absence was accounted for by family reasons.
Elections and Restorations.
It was agreed to elect twelve new members of the
Society, and twenty others were restored to membership,
while a large number of student-associates were enrolled.
Finance.
The Finance Committee's report was submitted by Mr.
Gibson, the Treasurer.
The receipts of the General Fund during the month
were :
£ s. d.
Penalties and costs 150 14 6
Subscriptions 88 4 0
" Journal " and other publications ... 1,256 17 3
Restoration-fees 6 10
Registration-fees ... ' 170 2 0
Examination-fees 1,075 7 0
£2,747 5 9
With the balance remaining from the previous month
the sum of 2,986Z. 13s. 4d. is in hand. The following
amounts were recommended for payment :
£ s. d.
" Journal " and publications ... 1,186 10 2
Stationery, etc ... 52 10 2
Current expenses 450 0 0
Salaries, etc._ _ 310 5 0
School examinations 65 14 4
Law charges 68 5 6
House 380 6 0
£2,513 11 2
The balances to the credit of the Benevolent Fund were
as follows :
£ d.
Current account ... 998 12 7
Donation account 53 5 1
Orphan Fund 71 18 4
The Treasurer, in moving the adoption of the report
and recommendations of the Finance Committee, remarked
that the figures were rather large, but, when they took
into consideration that they represented two months, he
thought it would be agreed that they were not abnormal .
He was pleased to report that the balance of the General
Account was at least 200?. more than it was a year ago
— (Hear, hear) — and that the payments were nearly 200/.
less. That, he said, placed the Council in a very good
position. He was also pleased to remark that they had
received for the Benevolent Fund special contri-
butions, one of which was from the Hull Chemists' Asso-
ciation, and amounted to 21. 12s. 6d., the proceeds of a
smoking concert. A little while ago they had received
two applications for boxes, one from Miss Kate Horniblow,
Llandudno, and the other from Mr. Robert Sharpies,
Leeds. The former had collected 11., which she had for-
warded, and the latter had collected 3s. The amounts were
small, but they were nevertheless very acceptable. Dealing
with the Benevolent Fund, the Treasurer said that the
amount to credit was 300Z. more than at the corresponding
period of last year. While he did not care to go into
particulars, he expressed a desire to refer to some property
that the Society have at Paddington Green. There are
two buildings, and the lease of one of them would fall
in in the course of the year. The other lease will fall in
after the lapse of another year. In the former instance
the tenant had agreed to pay 190?., instead of 5Sl. as
formerly for ground rent, and this arrangement would
continue for five years. When the lease of the second
property fell in, the fund would be benefited to the extent
of 600?. a year, instead of 110Z. as at present under the
existing arrangements.
Dr. Symes seconded the proposition, which was agreed to.
The Registrar remarked that, in view of the expiry
of the lease at Paddington Green, he had drawn up the
following resolution for submission to the meeting : " That
the application of Messrs. Brooke, Phillips & Co. for an
extension of the lease at 7 Paddington Green be granted
on the conditions referred to in the application. Also,
that the corporate seal of the Society be affixed to the
endorsement of the lease." This was unanimously agreed
to.
Benevolent Fund.
The report of the Benevolent Fund Committee having
been considered in camera, Mr. A. S. Campkin moved its
adoption. He remarked that an unusually protracted meet-
ing had been held the previous day, when the business before
them was thoroughly discussed. Applications for assist-
ance had been received from ten widows and three members.
After full consideration it was decided to grant assistance
to seven of the widows and to two of the members, the sum
in all amounting to 130?. Grants were also made to two
widows out of the Casual Fund amounting to 51. and 21.
The balance to the credit of the fund amounted to 541?.
Mr. Campkin proceeded to analyse the financial position,
showing that 380?. would be required before the end of the
year. A number of casual annuitants — people who came for
assistance from year to year and to whom they made grants
of from 13?. to 201. a year — had applied for old-age pen-
sions, and in these cases they had so far modified the
amounts given as not to carry them (the recipients) above
the 31?. per annum stipulated by the Act, which would
place them in a different position in regard to the receipt
of old-age pensions. He thought that during the next
year the committee would be justified in submitting to
the Council an amended proposal with regard to annui-
tants. He would make it quite clear, however, that
whatever action they might recommend, it would not be
retrospective. He suggested that a proposal should be
adopted differentiating the annuitants, and this proposal
would be submitted at a subsequent meeting.
Mr. David Gilmour seconded the motion, and remarked
that recently there had been no fewer than eight deaths.
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October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
53
and that there should be no risk in adopting the recom-
mendations made by the committee. He gave expression
to the hope that members of the Society throughout the
country would be loyal to the fund, which should be
kept prominently before their notice. He endorsed Mr.
Campkin's observation that the fund occupied a sounder
basis since the old-age pensions came into force.
It was accordingly agreed that three new annuitants be
placed upon the list and that the election take place on
December 13, 1910.
Examinations Report.
The Registrar, reporting on the examinations, stated
that in England and Wales there had been 154 Minor
candidates, of whom 49 passed and 105 failed. In Scot-
land there were 55 candidates, of whom 32 passed and
23 failed.
Local Associations.
Mr. E. T. Neathercoat submitted a report of the
Local Associations Committee, of which he is chairman.
This stated that during the meetings of the British Phar-
maceutical Conference at Cambridge he had an oppor-
tunity of discussing with representative pharmacists from
various parts of the kingdom the question of closer union
between the Society and local associations. The objects
of the committee were generally approved. The report
went on to say that the committee having had communi-
cated to it the result of a departmental conference on
the organisation of the Society in Scotland, it was unani-
mously resolved that the existing arrangement whereby
the Executive of the Society's North British Branch, in
conjunction with the Society's Secretary in Scotland, have
charge of the organising procedure in Scotland, should not
be disturbed, as it was working satisfactorily at present.
The Secretary had reported that from the data he had
collected it appeared that some twenty centres where local
associations existed, or had existed, exhibited marked
signs of lack of vitality and seemed to call for immediate
action. The committee resolved that the places mentioned
should be visited by members of the committee during the
winter session. It was agreed to report to the Council
that, in the view of the committee, it would be an ad-
vantage and tend to economise organising effort if invita-
tions to Councillors for association functions could be
forwarded through the committee. Mr. Neather:oat,
in moving the adoption of the report, commented upon the
proposals, and said the hope was that in the course of
time arrangements would be so complete that all the
associations would receive at least one visit from
a representative of the Society in the course of
the year. Among the visitations arranged were the fol-
lowing : The President — Colchester, Reading, and Wat-
ford ; the Vice-President — Hartlepools, Leeds, Bradford,
and other districts ; Mr. Gibson — Wigan, Worcester, and
possibly Derby; Mr. Hagon — Newbury, Swansea, and
possibly Pontypridd ; Mr. Walshaw — Burnley, South-
port, and Wakefield. He (Mr. Neathercoat) would visit
Bristol, Birmingham, Weymouth, and Durham. Mr. Cuff
had consented to visit Croydon and one or two other
places.
Mr. W. L. Currie seconded the adoption of the report,
which was unanimously agreed to.
A Curriculum Promised.
The President intimated that the report of the Educa-
tion and Examination Committee would be dealt with
in committee, and added that in connection therewith
it was Mr. Currie's desire to make a statement in public.
Mr. Currie : I have a great deal I should like to say
in public, but I have considered it advisable — and I
quite agree with what the President has said — that it
would be better to take the report of the committee in
private. I should, in the meantime, like it to go forth
to the members of the Society throughout the country
that we are very seriously considering the powers which
we have vested in us by our last Act of Parliament re-
garding the institution of a curriculum and the division
of the examination. We have given it very serious con-
sideration, and a scheme is before us just now which we
think, as a committee, ought in fairness to be submitted
for the approval of the two Boards of Examiners before
we put it before the members of the Society throughout
the country. Therefore, I only want it to be known at
the present time — and you know there has been a great
correspondence going on in the journals for the past few
weeks relative to this very point — that the Council and
the committee are charged with a particular object, and
have not forgotten what has been communicated to the
journals. I will at present content myself with the
observation that a scheme is under consideration which
I hope will soon be before the members of the Society for
discussion — certainly during the coming winter.
Parliamentary and General Purposes.
The Registrar read the report of this committee. It
stated that the Shops (No. 2) Bill had been under dis-
cussion, and had been remitted to the Parliamentary Sub-
committee with powers to secure such amendments as
would result in a minimum of restrictions. With reference
to the letter received from the Queensland Pharmaceutical
Society asking for reciprocity in the recognition of certi-
ficates, the report stated that a reply had been sent giving
a confidential explanation of the reason of the delay that
had taken place in the drafting of by-laws providing
for this.
The report was adopted.
International Congress of Pharmacy.
Mr. Edmund White and Mr. E. S. Peck, who were
delegates on behalf of the Society to the International
Congress of Pharmacy at Brussels, submitted a lengthy
report in regard to the proceedings and their reception.
This elicited a lengthy and at one stage rather heated
discussion.
Mr. White, replying to a question by Mr. Walshaw as
to why the Brussels Congress did not officially recognise
the British Pharmaceutical Society, said that the position
of the pharmacist in this country was absolutely different
from that in any other civilised country, in so far that
while here matters pharmaceutical were administered by a
voluntary body, in other countries they were administered
by the State. In this connection he expressed the belief
that the members of the calling in Great Britain did not
fully realise the privilege they possessed. " They main-
tain, some of them in cold blood, that they are entitled
to do as they like. That is freedom run riot," he added.
" It does happen very often that when the Society de-
sires to administer a very simple clause in the interests
of its members and to prevent others usurping their rights
■ — as, for example, the by-law as to the exhibition of
the certificate — there are members who resent being told
what to do for their own protection. Such a condition of
things seems very curious to me." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Allen said that the singularity of the British Phar-
macopoeia being the only work of the kind in the world in
the preparation of which pharmacists were not consulted did
not reflect great credit upon the pharmacy of this country.
A good many things would have to be altered before the
pharmacist occupied the position to which he was entitled
in this country.
Dr. Symes having described the position referred to by
Mr. Allen as an anomalous one, said that in every other
country it was the pharmacist who was responsible for the
production of the national Pharmacopoeia. Some day he
might in this country get recognition in a back-door sort
of way.
Mr. Campkin characterised the report as a very useful
one.
Mr. R. L. Gifford said that when he read paragraph six
of the report relating to the exhibition of the certificate of
qualification he felt hot with indignation and resentment.
[The paragraph referred to was as follows: "Although
many of our members may regret that this limitation is
outside the sphere of practical politics for Great Britain, they
must not forget that the beneficent intervention of Govern-
ment carries with it responsibilities and inconveniences to
which they might not care to submit. Thus we think that
pharmacists in this country who express so much indignation
when they are asked by the Pharmaceutical Society, entirely
in their own interests and for tneir own protection, to exhibit a
certificate of qualification in their pharmacies, would hardly
care to submit to, among other things, the visits of a Govern-
I ment inspector with power to inspect their stock to see that
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54
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
October 8, 1910
it was maintained in accordance with an official schedule,
and with power to reject anything which he considered unfit
'for use."!
The fir6t sentence of this was perfect and complete, direct
and final. The second was supposed to be explanatory, but,
in his view, it was altogether unnecessary. It was
.gratuitous, and contained innuendo and reflection that ought
not to have been used. " It seems to me, and Mr. White
•confirms my view," Mr. Gifford continued, "that the
attitude of mind of some of the members of this Council is
not so sympathetic as I feel it ought to be towards the
struggling members of my profession and trade. I know
the retail man from top to bottom, and I know that he is not
as bad as is frequently made out at this Council-table. I
know that he is worthy, deserving, but that he is unjustly
"treated."
The President : I will not allow you to say that. We
•cannot allow that to go on. You are going too far. "
Mr. Gifford : I say that he is unjustly treated by the
laws of this country.
The President : Quite so. If you want to say that, do so ;
Taut do not speak as you do of members of the Council.
Mr. Gifford : That he is as good as he is, is to my mind
surprising. That members of this Council should go out
of their way to cast such a reflection upon him, and not to
endeavour to look at his struggling experiences with more
sympathy, is to me very lamentable indeed. I should not
have drawn attention to this, but it seems to me a perfect
illustration of what I, at any rate, think I have found of the
attitude of mind of members of this Council to the great
mass of chemists in this country. Mr. White's comments
to-day confirm me in that.
Mr. Eymer Young remarked that to say that those who
neglected to put up a certificate showing that they were
members of the Society in a conspicuous position were
poor, downtrodden worms for whom the Society had no
■consideration was assuming too much. " My experience is
io the contrary," he went on to say. " I can speak of three
■of the biggest chemists in Lancashire who refuse to do so,
because they say it is tomfoolery and nonsense. They are
not the downtrodden worms that Mr. Gifford tries to make
them appear. I speak from facts, and I know what I am
talking about. There are people who from sheer neglect,
as there are others who cannot afford a shilling for the
certificate, do not get it. At the same time, many a
chemist who sells cigars and cigarettes does not kick
against the Government because he has to paint his
name over his door to indicate that he is licensed to sell
tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes, and has to pay for it annu-
ally, and yet we do not hear any story about the cruelty he
suffers such as is directed against us." Proceeding, Mr.
Young characterised it as extraordinary and anomalous
that the only people in this country who were really compe-
tent to compile the Pharmacopoeia were practically outcasts
in the preparation of the work and were prevented exer-
cising their knowledge in the matter. Surely the time had
come when the eyes of the authorities should be opened.
They should be very chary of endangering or jeopardising
the privileges they had of making their own rules and
regulations, and in no way should they give the community
cause for believing that the affairs of the Society were not
well conducted.
Mr. Cuff remarked that what the report contained was
intended to have the effect of helping the chemists of the
country to see how they could help themselves.
Mr. White said Mr. Gifford's point seemed to be that
there were members of the Society who did not get the
certificate to begin with. (Mr. Gifford: "Very few.")
There was a large proportion of others who refused to
get it and objected to the proceeding.
Mr. Gifford : No.
The Chairman : Order, order !
The Registrar : That is quite true.
Mr. White said he mentioned the fact stated in the report
because he thought he was justified in doing so, and if
Mr. Gifford could see any offence in the remark he was
willing there and then to say that no offence was intended.
When at the Brussels Congress he was struck with the fact
that the Continental pharmacists were afflicted with the same
professional and trade troubles as pharmacists at home.
The President proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. White
and Mr. Peck for attending the Congress at Brussels
and also for their report.
Mr. Cross seconded the proposition, and Mr. Gifford
expressed his desire to associate himself with it.
Mr. White formally acknowledged the compliment.
Welsh as a Modern Language.
Mr. Hagon remarked that it would be within the recol-
lection of members of the Council that it was agreed to
accept Welsh in lieu of a modern language. That decision
had given great satisfaction to the Welsh people. The
Welsh national sentiment was very much treasured, and
in many parts of Wales the teaching of the language
formed one of the items in the education of the child.
He had received letters from chemists in Wales asking
him to request the Council to state publicly that it now
did accept Welsh in lieu of a modern language. Mr.
Young, speaking at Swansea, told his audience that
Welsh had been so accepted.
The President : Yes, we do accept the Welsh language
in lieu of a modern language, but, of course, you must
always take into consideration that the other parts of
the examination are what we require.
Mr. Young : I am at a loss to understand why Mr.
Hagon should have raised the point. Why, it was emphati-
cally and distinctly stated during the period when I
adorned that chair — (laughter) — that the recognition of
Welsh was an accomplished fact. I thought that, at least,
was one useful item I had accomplished during my term
of office. (Laughter.)
Mr. Allen remarked that it was an actual examination
in the knowledge of Welsh that was now insisted upon.
The mere fact that one was able to talk Welsh did not
suffice.
Miscellaneous.
It was agreed to request the Secretary to send to Miss
Dorothy J. Bartlett the sum of 15/. in respect of the Hewlett
scholarship, and to send to the winners the first moiety
of 121. 10s. each of the Jacob Bell scholarship.
On the suggestion of the President, it was decided
to grant the application of Miss Elsie Wardle, Secretary
of the Women Pharmacists' Association, for the use of
the lecture theatre on the occasion of the delivery of
the inaugural address in connection with that organisation.
The President stated that he had received the portrait
of Professor Reynolds Green, who for twenty years occupied
the chair of botany in the Society's school. This had
been duly framed and would be hung on the walls of
the school.
Correspondence.
Letters were acknowledged from the Chemists' Associa-
tions of the following districts enclosing resolutions
respecting the the restrictions upon the sale of Panopepton
and similar preparations : Plymouth, Bradford, Leeds,
Oldham, and the Western (of London). The Registrar
mentioned that the resolutions were on the lines of the
one adopted at Torquay.
This was all the public business.
OPENING OF THE SESSION.
The opening of the sixty-ninth session of the School of
Pharmacy attracted a larger assembly of representative
pharmacists than has been seen in the lecture theatre at
17 Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C., for some time, the
presentation ceremony of his portrait to Mr. Walter Hills
accounting for the augmented attendance. A noticeable
feature was the large number of ladies present. Among
the company were
Messrs. F. H. Alcock, C. B. Allen, R. R. Bennett, T. Brewis,
R. Feaver Clarke, J Harcombe Cuff, H. Deane, J. W.
Douglas, H. Finnemore, G. Bult Francis, F. W. Gamble, D.
Gilmour, W. F. Gulliver, E. H. Harrison, J. C. Hewlett, J.
Stuart Hills, Walter Hills, A. E. Hobbs, C. Hodgkinson,
A. E. Holden, W. L. Howie, J. A. Jennings, H. M. Kluge,
E. W. Lucas, Peter MacEwan, T. Maben, J. D. Marshall,
N. H. Martin, E. T. Neathercoat, R. H. Parker, J. C.
Pentney, E. S. Peck, A. J. Phillips, R. A. Robinson, R. A.
Robinson, junr., Charles Umney, John C. Umney, Donald
Watson, E. White, R. C. Wren, and J. R. Young.
Shortly after 3 p.m. the President (Mr. J. F. Harring-
ton), accompanied by Mr. David Howard, the Vice-Presi-
dent, the Treasurer, members of Council, Mr. Charles
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Umney, and Professors of the School of Pharmacy,
entered the lecture-room, and the proceedings began by
the President calling upon the Dean (Professor A. W.
Crossley) to give his
Report of the Past Session.
The Dean said that the record of examination results
since July last, though satisfactory, did not show quits
such a high percentage of passes as usual. During the
session 20 students sat for the Major examination, of
wriom 15, or 75 per cent., passed. At the Minor exami-
nation, 43 presented themselves, of whom 34, or 80 per
cent., passed. The results were somewhat disappointing,
though, of course, they were far better than the average
passes throughout the country. The prospects for the
coming session were exceedingly bright, the school being
quite full.
Prize Medals and Scholarships.
Mr. T. Tickle then read his report upon the competi-
tion for the Pereira medal and Council medals. The
examination had been conducted by Professor Phillips,
Mr. Wright, and himself. The competitors, although the
entries were smaller than
usual, were as full of en-
thusiasm as ever, and the
standard ruled exceedingly
high. Some excellent papers
had been contributed, espe-
cially in chemistry. Two of
the competitors had been
deemed deserving of the
awards at the disposal of the
Council. The intimation
that the competitor last in
the list had used the pseudo-
nym "Nil Desperandum
called forth much merri-
ment.
The President, in pre-
senting Mr. Walter Ryley
Pratt with the Pereira
Medal, and books to the
value of five guineas, said
he had obtained the highest
honour that it was possible
for a student to attain
during the year in the
School of Pharmacy. He
was a most distinguished
student and they were all
proud of him. As they had
heard from the Dean, they
so highly appreciated his
high qualities that he had
been appointed a demon-
strator in the School.
The Pharmaceutical
Society medal in silver
was , then presented to Mr.
Howard Vincent Potter,
whom the President described as one of
students.
Mr. E. S. Peck next reported upon the competitions for
the Jacob Bell and the Manchester Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation Scholarships. Fifteen candidates presented them-
selves for the Bell Scholarship, of whom four obtained the
minimum standard of marks, which was two-thirds of the
maximum, and the difference between them was only 10 per
cent. Mr. James Small, of Brechin, obtained 80 per cent,
of the total marks, and Mr. H. A. Phillips, Wolverhamp-
ton, closely followed with 76 per cent. There were three
candidates for the Manchester Scholarship, and one of
them, Mr. Harris Levi, Manchester, obtained the requisite
number of marks. The good work done by the compe-
titors could not fail to have a very important influence on
their careers later in life. (Applause.)
The President then called forward Mr. James Small
and Mr. H. A. Phillips and presented them with the books
which go with the Bell Scholarships. He also mentioned
that Mr. Charles Gilling had been appointed the Salter
Research Scholar.
Letters of Apology for Absence.
The President said that before calling upon Mr. Davidl
floward to deliver his inaugural address he desired to>
inform them that many friends had written expressing,
regret that they could not be with them on that occasion.
Amongst them were Dr. John Attfield, Professor Bayley
Balfour, Sir Thomas Barclay, Professor Bower, Professor
Brown, Sir Lauder Brunton, Dr. Buchanan, Dr. Dobbin,
Mr. A. E. Ekins, Mr. Barrett, Mr. William Giles, Mr.
J. P. Gilmour, Mr. C. A. Hill, Miss Elsie Hooper, Mr. F.
Harwood Lescher, Mr. George Lunan, Sir Donald Mac-
Alister, Professor Dixon, Sir William Ramsay, Mr.
Ransom, Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. David Storrar, Sir
Edward Thorpe, Sir William A. Tilden, and Dr. F. B.
Power. The President then introduced Mr. David'
Howard to deliver
The Inaugural Address.
Mr. Howard said : Ladies and Gentlemen, — Perhaps it
may seem somewhat presumptuous that I, not a pharmacist,
should address the School of Pharmacy. But I can at any
rate claim an experience of
over half a century in the-
manufacture of pharma-
ceutical chemicals, and,
what is not less to the point,,
of technical education in
general. Moreover, my
grandfather was a phar-
macist before he was a che-
mist, and the memory of
nearly a century and a
quarter ago remains very
fresh in the minds of his
descendants, from the in-
valuable instruction he got
in those old days. I always-
regard that old pharmacistr
my grandfather, in silence.
Then my father and my
uncle took the keenest in-
terest in the foundation of
the Pharmaceutical Society.
I need not venture to say
that I remember it- -of
course, I was young at the-
time, for I was only two
years old. Now, in these-
days of mutability and pro-
gress— not always in the-
same or in the right direc-
tion— (laughter) — it is well!
to remember that nothing
new is stable unless it has:-
its roots in the past, and
that it is no small matter
that the School of Phar-
macy has so long and SO'
good a tradition and has
so well utilised its experience. Now, just as the phar-
macist led the way in chemistry — because we must all re-
member that all the great chemists of the eighteenth century
(I think I am right in saying all) were pharmacists —
pharmacy was the school of chemistry, and pharmacists led
the way so effectually that you appropriated the very name
of chemistry, and the title of chemist legally belongs to you.
What pains and penalties I should risk if I called myself
a chemist I do not know. (Laughter.) Please remember
that there is a certain body over the way which I know
pretty well. It is not allowed to call itself an Institute
of. Chemists, and must only call itself an Institute of
Chemistry. (Laughter.) You know, it is a very curious
thing how words sometimes get wrong. By analogy you-
ought to be called apothecaries, but then the general prac-
titioner has stolen that. (Laughter.) You deserve the-
name chemist, because of the long association between
chemistry and pharmacy, more than the name apothecary.
But still your position has been very inconvenient, and'
much perplexes our unfortunate foreign friends, who cannot
imagine an apothecary who is not a pharmacist, and I have-
Mb. David Howard, F.I.C., F.C.S.
the best
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known general practitioners who were not. (Laughter.)
Now, not only has pharmacy led the way in chemistry, but
it has also led the way in the teaching of applied science.
When this school was staited there were schools of
chemistry, but for long years afterwards, with the excep-
tion of the Royal School of Mines, the chemical student
was allowed to learn theory, but was allowed to work out
his own practice — if he could. When I was a student in
the early 'sixties, it was still doubtful if the scientific man
did not lose caste if he made a profit out of his science. It
is important now to remember that Dr. Hofmann was ex-
tremely unfortunate on that ground. That was why we lost
him to Berlin. It was not dignified to put Pegasus to the
plough. (Laughter.) It is well to look back and see the
principles on which the Pharmaceutical Society founded
its school.
Science and Practice.
How can we combine practical knowledge and pure
science ? The question is not so easy as it looks, and a good
deal of so-called technical education is a very poor answer
indeed. In fact, I confess that I prefer a workman who
has not been technically educated — (laughter) — when we
can do it better than some of the schools. (Renewed
laughter.) It seems to me that the old rules for pharmacy
are the true answer. Apprenticeship has, in most trades,
died out, to the great detriment of those trades. (Hear,
hear.) I hope such will not be the case in pharmacy. If
trades cannot afford to lose it, professions can do so even
less. A school of law cannot teach the practice of law half
as well as practice can, and what would the physician be
who had never walked the hospital? What would be the
chances of an army under a general who knew only the
parade-ground and Sandhurst ? The real apprenticeship
is a far better thing than the substitutes which are
proposed, and let no one grumble if it means drudgery.
(Applause.) I know that is an objection, and that a short
and ready cut to success is preferable. I am an old man,
and when you are as old as I am you will then find out that
there is no short and ready cut to success, but that there
are many short and ready cuts in other directions.
(Laughter and applause.) How much of the success of the
most successful man — whoever he may be — springs from
drudgery, and how much of his success depends on his
having been trained not to shrink from drudgery !
Drudgery is the first condition to success. You think the
life of the Lord Chancellor is a very attractive one — with
his 12.000Z. a year. (Laughter.) I cannot tell you what
work he dees, but I do know from what I have seen of
other people that the drudgery of the law is worse than
the drudgery of pharmacy. But apprenticeship is not
enough alone. That was a great and a bold discovery of
the Pharmaceutical Society in old days. The phar-
macists who formed this Society knew that well, and so
they founded this School to give the higher training which
develops and explains the knowledge that experience only
can give. You may say that I am exactly reversing the
order of things, but it is the knowledge which should
explain experience, and I can only say my experience is
that experience comes before knowledge. All the knowledge
never takes root in one mind. Now on that point there comes
the question whether apprenticeship should come before
the school or the school before the practice. Perhaps I am
too prejudiced by my own experience to be a good judge.
(Laughter.) But I do know the advantage of having been
through our own works before I went to college. And
when I went into the works I had only such knowledge of
chemistry as I learned at school. One could teach oneself
chemistry at school even then, although there was no
modern science schools. Anyone who wanted to learn
could learn chemistry or anything else. Then I went to
the old College of Chemistry, and only those who have
been under Dr. Hofmann know what a marvellous teacher
he was — (applause) — and how much all that is best in the
teaching of chemistry in England we owe to his example
and to his instruction. When I went there I knew what
I wanted to know, and I knew the meaning of what I was
studying and what it meant on a large scale. Everything
was clear and plain. But then we come to the higher
training we receive. Now we cannot learn everything at
once. We cannot learn all of one science. I have not the
faintest doubt that all of you feel as if you knew more
chemistry than I do — (applause) — but there was the little
boy of thirteen when he first began, and here you have the
old man of seventy-one. And right along I have learned
one lesson, and that is how very little I know. I say you
cannot learn everything ; you cannot learn even one branch
of chemistry absolutely. And if this was impossible when
I was a student, how much more impossible it is now.
What, therefore, should we learn ? The practical man —
he is a terrible person — (laughter) — and there are plenty
of them, would say, "Learn what is useful." I fully
agree ; but if what is useful means something that can be
immediately turned into money, it is
A Grievous Delusion.
If you only learn the minimum of scientific knowledge
required to pass examinations and to start you in practical
work, how are you to manage when, in the course of time,
the requirements of life change, and with it the require-
ments of knowledge. Now, if I have an enemy — and I
hope I have not— and if I could wish him the most awful
thing in matters temporal, it would be that he should work
on exactly that basis — in the application of knowledge
that was not successful. What is wanted is quite different
from that. It is to learn the scientific grounds of our
practical knowledge and the scientific method of study,
and to learn and to think science. You cannot learn that
of which you do not know the existence, because it does
not exist yet. When I was a student the application of
electricity to the arts was a thin^ confined to electro-
plating. How could I then have learned the science of
electro-chemistry? There was no such thing, and the
examples I might give are almost infinite. ,Now what is
wanted is quite different from the practical man's useful
knowledge. It is, perhaps, easy to use words, but it is
rather difficult to define them. So when I speak of think-
ing science I know what I mean, because, except those who
have been trained in science, their utterances on scientific
subjects are simply too wonderful for words. For that
purpose, beyond the absolute elements of science, it does
not much matter what we learn, if only we learn it
thoroughly. In twenty years we shall most likely want
something different, and therefore we shall want all the
more power of grasping new ideas. Thoroughness of
study is the main requisite, and the man who has really
grasped one subject can take up another ; but if he has but
half learned his one subject, he has no chance with a new
one. In after-life one has to know about endless subjects.
It is part of the enjoyment of life when one has a wide
and varied semi-knowledge of all subjects. It is the joy
of his life if h© keeps his mind fresh enough to enjoy
new discoveries ; it is a burden if one has to learn enough
to apply them. But unless the habit has been acquired,
knowledge— all that half or less than half knowledge— is
nothing less than a snare and a delusion. There is a
very trite saying, and it is true as it is trite, that there are
only three things to learn. One is to learn to know what
one knows, one is to know what one does not
know, and the other is to know ho.v to learn
what one wants to know. No one can go further than
that. We should realise the first condition, and I advise
students to learn to know what you know because very
few people do. (Applause.) As time goes on and we
begin to realise
The Impossibility of Universal Knowledge,
there will come in the need of the second condition. How
many people know the exact limitations of their own
knowledge ? Don't get into the witness-box without having
ubtained that full knowledge which is essential to the wit-
ness whose evidence should be convincing. If you only
have the half knowledge, the counsel who cross-examines
will sneer at vou. That does not hurt you. You may
think you know more than he does, and no doubt you are
correct; but he can turn you inside out all the same.
(Laughter and applause.) And as to the last— how to
know what we want to know— the only chance is m the
thoroughness of our grasp of elementary training. I want
to make that quite clear to all your minds. What has
desultory, rather casual reading of a subject to do with
thoroughness? How can a child learn to pick something
out of a book if he has not learned to read very accurately?
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But there is another reason for acquiring a grasp of prac-
tical scientific thought rather than mere technical prac-
tice, and that is the uncertainties of our future needs.
You intend to practise pharmacy, but I again urge you
do not know what the pharmacy of the future will be.
You know how much pharmacy has changed since I was
a boy, and it is a sound grasp of the subject which you
do know which will enable you to grasp new ideas. You
do not know what openings there may be — either allied to
pharmacy or, it may be, in other branches of chemistry —
and the possibility of seeing such depends entirely on
that thoroughness of training and power of grasping new
ideas of which I have spoken. A sound basis of educa-
tion is a foundation on which you can build whatever
you will, and, moreover, it is an assurance against
the future of the highest value. No one knows exactly
what one wants, and nobody knows precisely even whether
they will confine themselves to their own profession or
whether they will have to take up new lines, new studies,
new matters of business either apart from or in alliance
with their own prof ession. The man who has thoroughly
grasped his own work is the only one who has a. chance of
doing any good outside. But there is another duty of which
I hope you will all take some share — that of
Public Work.
in its endless branches, whether municipal or judicial or
political — political in the true sense of the term, I mean ;
not in the politics of elections. Do not have too much to
do with those politics. What I allude to is the care of the
body politic, the politics of the city, the duties of good
citizenship. It is important that all men should take then-
part in these things. In such matters do not seek
eminence, but seek to work for others. If rightly done, public
work is hard and thankless, but it is a duty almost the
highest of all. Now in all public work there is special
need of the practically trained intelligence. What a mess
the theoretical enthusiast makes of it, whether it may be in
widening a road or in carrying out some similar contract,
the theoretical enthusiast, no matter what it is, always
makes a me6s of it. (Laughter.) The need in all such
work of scientific knowledge is as universal as its posses-
sion is rare. It is wonderful how little idea of scientific
evidence the practical man has alike in judicial and other
matters. (Laughter.) Now it is possible that some of you
are inclined to say to yourselves, " Why should I study the
art of manufacturing medicines when I can buy them ready-
made?" If you do so, and I am to say that with the
enormous scale on which these things have to be made it
becomes a necessity, it is all the more necessary that you
should know how they are made. A ton of quinine is not
easy to realise, but I was over at Amsterdam a week ago,
when I saw 55 tons of quinine sold. It seems as easy to
make a ton of quinine as an ounce, if you only know how.
(Laughter.) It is absolutely necessary that you should
know how they are made, and know the possibility of their
manufacture, or you will be quite incapable of judging
them. The old-fashioned pharmacist, who made all he
used, must have been a singular fool if he knew nothing
about chemistry. Everyone who handles a product ought
to possess the knowledge of its mysterious points that the
old-fa6hioned pharmacist did. The civil engineer does not
make his girders or set his stonework, but he is no engineer
if he does not know every detail of the work he directs.
Now in this connection I venture to point out
A Singular Anomaly.
We have all to work by a book with a red cover
which is known as the British Pharmacopoeia. Some of
us think it is far from perfect. In all other civilised
countries the practical pharmacist has an official connection
with the compilation of the Pharmacopoeia. (Applause.)
But here in this country it is entirely in the hands of medical
men who may or may not take advice. I greatly fear that
the real knowledge of pharmacology is not increasing in
that way among them. The other day at one of the schools
of medicine a great expert explained the extreme difficulty
of learning four different sciences, of which chemistry and
pharmacy form only one, in such a short time. And it was
pointed out that it was expected that a medical man should
in 6uch a short time be competent to dispense medicines.
That expert said that such a thing was impossible.
(Applause.) The modern medical student cannot grasp it.
all. It is only right, therefore, that those who do know what-
pharmacy means, who do know the needs and possibility of
pharmacy, should have a voice in the compilation of the
Pharmacopoeia rather than those who are too busy to under-
stand all the problems involved in its production. This,
I may say, is much more professional politics than most of
us think. It is not only that the Pharmacopoeia has to.
perform its true functions, but it is often taken as a law-
book and made a standard on legal matters. It is one of
the anomalies of which 6ome of you have experience that
you have to be tried by the standards of a book which uses
words so indefinite that I have not the faintest conception of
what they mean. (Applause.) Itisthemost bewilderingbook.
that I ever knew of. Conversely the pharmacist has to
know a great deal of special law; to understand all the
responsibility of handling poisons, and to make no mistake
as to scheduled poisons. He will be blamed anyway, so
all he can do is to carry out the letter and the spirit of the
law. It is wonderful how little outsiders know of the
law. An eminent barrister is reported in the papers to
have said that morphia is not a poison. Others in judicial,
positions blame the pharmacist because a man buys spirit
of salt from a grocer with suicidal intent. (Laughter.)
The Pharmacist and Prescribing.
Again and again fierce condemnations are launched against
the pharmacist who fulfils all that is said about the danger
of poisons. People who- are not chemists should not
meddle with these things at all. Now I have spoken of
the spirit of the law, and I think the responsibility of the
chemist should not end with the schedules. There is far
more danger in ignorant individuals prescribing for them-
selves than in the pharmacist prescribing for them, and I
am sure there is a need of warning to those who indulge-
in sugar-coated tablets of patent drugs with no idea of their
effect. A has a headache, and a doctor has prescribed
phenacetin. And so B, C, and D having headaches, the?
cause of which they know nothing, take increasing quan-
tities of the like. Another has heard of veronal and takes
it largely. I know of a ease where a prescription contain-
ing a strong dose of digitalis was given to an old man, and
copied for administration as a tonic for his children and
grandchildren. (Laughter.) In the old days it was dif-
ferent. When I was young the first requisite of physic
was that it was nasty, and the patient thought twice before
taking it. Nowadays the fatal facility of the tasteless
tablet has changed all that, and there is far greater
need of a word of caution. There is a case on record of a
child who found the outside of Easton-syrup tablets so-
nice that it swallowed several, with the natural result.
Many " grown-ups " are not much wiser, though the result
may not be so sudden. This dangerous similarity is air
added reason that patent medicines should only be handled
by those who understand them. It is only those who have-
to work with workmen, many of them of long experience,
who can realise the frightful danger a man runs who has
not a scientific grasp of what he is doing when he comes to-
handle poison. Some of these men are careless about the
most dangerous poisons. An ignorant person knows that
certain things are poisons, but he has really no idea of what
that means. I have known a case of a man at Croydon
who was employed in making oxide of mercury. He
was very fond of chewing tobacco, and he used to take a
pinch from his pocket and put it in his mouth without ever
thinking of dusting his fingers while he was handling the
oxide of mercury. He suffered the danger, but sometimes
it is not the person who makes the mistake, but the un-
fortunate outsider, who suffers ; and I say that the very
fact of the dangerous similarity of some medicines is a
reason why more knowledge and, what is more important,
more accurate ideas of elementary physiology and many
other subjects which you have to work up sooner or later,
is required. I am not without hope that we may see a
reaction in the administration of medicine. Ease of swal-
lowing is not everything. How far may a well-coated dose
go before it dissolves, and what is the danger of adherence
to some distant part of the mucous membrane and sub-
mitting it to the action of a concentrated solution of a
potent drug. You cannot even follow the course of such
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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
October 8, 1910
.administration by the x rays except in the case of bismuth,
.as is occasionally done. Of course if sufficiently well made
tthe pill or tablet may pass undenoted and triumphantly
"through all its dangers, but that is hardly the intention of
rthe prescriber.
Now, perhaps you will say that I have told you nothing
inew, and that you knew it already. It is perfectly true,
•but is there no need to insist again and again on the old
••truths, and not only to know them but to live up to them?
In these days, when there is so grave a tendency to seek
Portrait to Mr. Walter Hills.
Mr. Harrington then, as President of the Society, pre-
sented to Mr. Walter Hills his portrait painted in oils by
Mr. Arthur T. Nowill. In so doing Mr. Harrington said
that the idea of the portrait originated with Mr. C. B.
Allen, an old friend of Mr. Hills, and the purpose was to
commemorate the services which Mr. Hills had rendered
to the Pharmaceutical Society. He specially mentioned
Mr. Hills's Minority Report as a member of the Depart-
mental Committee on Poisons, and concluded by unveiling
ior ease and pleasure, we need more than ever to remind the portrait and asking Mr. Hills to accept a quarto port
ourselves of the nead for strenuous, unfailing application to
'the work before us, of laying and maintaining a sound and
wide foundation of our "knowledge, of absolute thorough-
mess in our work, and ready facility to work on new lines,
.and above all on that wise temperance of thought that can
weigh rightly the merits alike of the new and of the old,
•neither running after and believing every novelty because
it is new, nor refusing it for the same reason, and in like
manner learning what is permanent in the old learning.
'Truth itself does not change.
folio in which a brief address was illuminated (this re-
ferring to his services as Councillor, President, and Trea-
surer of the Society during twenty-nine years), and on
which the names of the subscribers were written.
Mr. Hills, who received quite an ovation, said that
when he looked at the picture he would always reflect that
whatever work he had done for the. Pharmaceutical Society
had not been of a thankless nature. For nearly thirty
years he had been on the Council of the Society, and a
very interesting time it had
been to him. He must be
pardoned if 1 e happened to
be a little' egotistical that
day, but he desired to say
why he undertook the work
which it had teen his plea-
sure for many years to dis-
charge. He hoped that
there was at least one reason
for it, and that was the
reason given by the great
Lord Bacon, who said :
" I hold every man to be a
debtor to his profession ; from
the which as men, of course,
do seek to receive counten-
ance and profit, so ought they
of duty to endeavour them-
selves by way of amends to
be a help and ornament there-
unto."
It was his sincere hope that
this influence would conj
tinue to work in connection
with the Society. Speaking
in the presence of a large
number of students, he
might be allowed to suggest
the motto to them, and that
when they went out into life
they would not forget the
Society, but would try in a
special way to further its
interests. In his early days
something seemed to impel
him to work for the Society.
Coming to London in 1869,
he was necessarily associated
with a house which was
closely connected with the work of the Society. He could
not go into the old place in Oxford Street without feeling a
certain pharmaceutical atmosphere. As a boy he only once
saw Jacob Bell, but he was struck with his wonderful ability
and his enthusiastic advocacy of the interests of his calling.
His association with other prominent members of the Society
made him feel that he was bound, when the opportunity
came, to do what he could for the Society's benefit. His
feeling then was "woe is me if I preach not the phar-
maceutical gospel." Perhaps no department of the
Society's work gave him more-- pleasure than that connected
with the School. Concluding, he asked the members of the
Society to allow the picture to be hung with the portraits
in the Council Chamber. That, he said, was a red-letter
day in hisjife, and he acknowledged with thanks not
desired was that the young men should take their place and ! only the generosity they had extended to him on that
"try to do the work they had attempted better than they \ occasion, but the invariable kindness to himself of all
had done. If anyone could help forward the Society and connected with the Society. (Applause.)
assist the individual students at its school, then he might The President having accepted the portrait, the com-
aay, Non omnis mortar. (Applause.) pany adjourned to the Examination Hall for tea.
The expression and applica-
tion of the truth does, and
must change, and we shall
find that new truths, if they
"bo true, have their roots and
■draw their life from the past.
.Jonah's gourd sprang up in a
night, and withered away in
;a night, and the mere novelty
.most times shares a like fate.
•{Loud applause.)
Mr. Charles Umney, in
proposing a vote of thanks to
Mr. Howard, remarked that
"lie was a student about the
:same time as that gentleman
in the early 'sixties. He felt
;sure that when they sat down
and pondered over what he
had said to them that day
•they would be greatly bene-
fited. Mr. Howard had
■spoken on the importance of
•one working outside one's
"trade for the benefit of the
•community. He could testify
that Mr. Howard had done
tso very amply. He had had
"the pleasure of meeting that
•gentleman on 'Change, at the
'Chamber of Commerce, and
"he could say that there was
no more zealous worker either
"in the City or in the East of
London than he.
Mr. R. A. Robtnson, in
■.seconding, suggested that
Mr. Howard had made one
"important omission from his
;address, and that was the secret of never growing old.
(Laughter.) One would think from his appearance there
that he was scarcely fifty-one rather than seventy-one.
'(Renewed laughter.) He did not think that the students
would easily forget what Mr. Howard had told them —
"that success in pharmacy commenced with drudgery, and
■could only be secured by thoroughness in work. (Ap-
•plause.)
The audience signified their approval of the proposition
%y loud applause, it being generally agreed that Mr.
Howard's address had been a stimulating, intellectual
'treat.
Mr. Howard, in reply, said he had been simply trying
"to act the part of the old man, because he was one, by
■endeavouring to encourage the young. What old men
Me. Walter Hills.
(From the Presentation Portrait.
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October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
59
Pharmaceutical Society of
Ireland.
ANNUAL MEETING.
THE thirty-fifth annual meeting of the members was
held at 67 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, on Monday
evening, October 3, Mr. John Smith, President, in the
chair. There were also present Dr. J. A. Walsh, Dr.
J. S. Ashe, Dr. A. J. Barnes, Messrs. J. Michie, J. Bur-
nett, P. N. White, W. F. Wells, Wm. N. Allen, F. J.
Fitzpatrick, D. L. Kirkpatrick, A. Owen Wells, Arthur J.
Cahill, M. J. Foley, and M. J. Caffrey. The minutes of
the last annual meeting were read by the Registrar,
approved of by the meeting, and signed by the President.
Council Election.
The President read the report of the secretaries of the
ballot for the election of seven members on the Council.
There were 188 voting-papers returned, of which one was
rejected as the names were not erased. The following
was the result of the ballot :
John Smith, 170. 1 Charles J. B. Dunlop, 145.
Joseph Henry Bowden, 164. James Tate, 128.
David M. Watson, 163. Patrick J. Fielding, 63.
Richard Blair, 150 I M. John Folev, 52
Henry V. Goldon, 147. ! Arthur John Cahill, 50.
(Signed) James A. Walsh ; Thomas Batt, October 3, 1910.
The President declared Messrs. Smith, Bowden,
Watson, Blair, Goldon, Dunlop, and Tate (the retiring
members of the Council) duly elected.
Presidential Address.
The President said this was the third year he had the
honour of occupying the presidential chair and of address-
ing them at their annual meeting. It was also the thirty-
fifth annual meeting of their Society, and he was glad to
be able to report that the Society was in a vigorous and
healthy condition. The progress as regards membership
during those years had been perhaps slow and not in keep-
ing with the numbers added to the registers yearly.
Nevertheless, with the funds at its disposal, the Society
had done good work in maintaining the law as laid down
in the Pharmacy and Poisons Acts as regards the sale of
poisons and compounding of prescriptions throughout the
country. In reviewing the work and progress of the
Society for the past year there was nothing that he need
occupy much of their time with ; and as this was the only
opportunity the members had of indicating and giving
expression to their views as regards the actions of their
representatives on the Council, he would, by being brief,
all the sooner make way for them. Turning to the
registers for the year, he noted that they had a total of
1,728 on the registers, being an increase of 44 :
]9C9 1910 Increase Decrease
Pharmaceutical Chemists...
818
851
33
Pharmaceutical Assistants
121
126
5
Chemists and Druggists ...
191
188
3
Registered Chemists
554
563
9
1,684
1,728
47
Less decrease ..
3
Net. increaso
44
He regretted to have to report the removal by death of
the names of six pharmaceutical chemists, three chemists
and druggists, and three registered druggists. As regards
membership, there was an increase of 17 pharmaceutical
chemists, there being now 311 subscribers, compared with
294 the former year, but, owing to two associate druggists
having dropped out, the net increase was only 15. He
ventured to appeal again to licentiates to support the
Society more heartily in carrying out its duties. Know-
ing as he did the large amount of correspondence which
had to be dealt with in the office from non-subscribers, he
made no apology for this appeal, but would simply say
that if correspondents recognised the functions of the
Society at all they should also recognise its claims, and
that it was scarcely fair to saddle the willing horse with
all the burden. In view of the numbers of non-subscribers
now in business in the larger towns it was worth con-
sidering if the time had not arrived for trying to encourage
a greater interest in the Society by the appointment of pro-
vincial secretaries, or by securing representatives for the
Council from districts not at present represented and who
could do much by intercourse with the licentiates in busi-
ness in their respective neighbourhoods to stimulate that
interest.
examinations.
The members entering for the Preliminary examinations,
showed a slight decrease, 107 having entered this year,,
compared with 121 for 1909, but the number of passes,
was 42, compared with 40 the previous year. There
were also registered 33 on certificates from other
bodies. During the year two candidates passed with
honours, namely, Ian Alexander Clarke, 85^ per cent.,
and May Wilson Corry, 77f per cent. The Government.
Visitor (Sir John W. Moore) again drew attention to.
what he considered a grievance under which the candi-
dates laboured, in that the subjects of arithmetic and
weights and measures were marked as separate subjects-
instead of being combined as one subject. It sometimes,
happened that a candidate might be short of passing,
marks in one of these subjects, while passing very credit-
ably in the other. The Visitor's contention was a reason-
able one, namely, that, judging by the questions set in<
weights and measures, a candidate could not answer the
questions without a knowledge of arithmetic, and that if
he secured, say, a fourth the number of marks in arith-
metic, and made up the 50 per cent, necessary to pass-
by doing well in the other subject, he should be allowed
through. The Council had expressed their willingness to
give effect to his suggestion, and the matter would be dealt,
with when next the Privy Council was approached in regard]
to any new regulation.
For the Pharmaceutical Licence examination 108 candi-
dates presented themselves, being an increase of two over
the former year. Forty candidates passed, being an
increase of seven. The following candidates passed with
honours : M. J. Caffrey, W. Wolfe Bennett, and Roden
Johnston, jun. The 'Council regretted that no medal
could be awarded for this year because, although one»
candidate secured the requisite grand total for the silver
medal, he failed to obtain the requisite percentage in one-
subject. Mr. George Brown, one of the Examiners in
Pharmacy, having completed his term of five years, retired,
and Dr. W. Vincent Johnston was appointed to the-
vacancy. In maintaining the standard of the qualifying,
examination without making it unduly severe, it was fa
matter for regret that so many of the rejected candi-
dates failed in pharmacy. Of the 68 rejected candi-
dates, 54, while perhaps failing in some of the other-
subjects as well, failed, in pharmacy. He was still
in hope of something being done to establish a course o£"
instruction in pharmacy in connection with their schools,
which should prove a distinct gain to candidates prepar-
ing for the examination. For the assistants' examina-
tion 8 candidates presented themselves, of whom 5 failed.
For the registered druggists' examination there were 28'
candidates, of whom 11 passed.
the schools.
The attendance at the schools had been fairly well main-
tained throughout the session, there being 35 (an in-
crease of 8) at the Botany and Materia Medica School,,
and 19 (a decrease of 1) at the Chemistry School-
Ths Materia Medica School was very efficiently conducted!
by Dr. Ashe, who spared no pains to impart a thorough-
knowledge of the subject to the students. They were-
sorry to lose the services of Mr. L. B. Smyth, B.A.. as-
lecturer in botany, but they congratulated him on having
received a Government appointment in connection with the-
Department of Agriculture. Mr. Arnold K. Henry, B.A.,
Senior Moderator (Gold Medallist) T.C.D.. assistant to
the Professor of Botany in Dublin University, had been-
appointed to the vacancy. It was unsatisfactory to note-
that only one student obtained a prize during the past
school-year, Mr. Ian Alexander Clarke having been?
awarded a first prize in chemistry. As already mentioned,,
this student passed the Preliminary examination with
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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST
October 8, 1910
honours, with the high percentage of 85g. The examina-
tions for these school prizes were left in the hands of the
lecturers. Following the determined effort made last year
on behalf of the Dublin Technical School to force the
Council to recognise a new class in botany and materia
medica, and in which effort they invoked the aid of Dublin
Castle, concerted action had been taken by
SEVERAL PROVINCIAL SCHOOLS
with a view to having these courses in chemistry (and, in
some cases, in materia medica) recognised. In view of the
importance of the question it was thought advisable to
postpone consideration of the matter for six months. That
■decision was come to in April, so that the matter would
come up for consideration again at the next Council
meeting, and the members would have an opportunity
that night of expressing their views on the matter. But,
after the scathing criticism by the Department of Agri-
culture and Technical Instruction on the methods of con-
ducting the technical schools in the City of Dublin, he
thought the members would agree that the action of the
Council was perfectly justified so far as Kevin Street was
concerned. In a letter to the Chairman of the Technical
Instruction Committee the Secretary of the Department
practically told him that the want of supervision and
method in the conduct of the schools could not be worse
and if not remedied must end in failure. He did not for
one moment make any reflection on the lecturers in the
particular subjects, but they must be permitted to look to
those in authority for some guarantee that the instruction
given was on proper lines and in conformity with the
course laid down in their syllabus before recognising a
school. As the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council had
been appealed to in the matter, he thought "their attention
should be directed to the true state of affairs and that
they should be shown that the attitude of the Society in
the matter of the Kevin Street Schools was not so wide of
the mark after all. In making these remarks he recog-
nised that the
TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
deserved every encouragement and that their young men
should be encouraged to avail themselves of the 'instruction
in general science. If the practice was more generally
followed they would be better prepared to avail themselves
■of the special courses in pharmaceutical chemistry after-
wards. At the same time, it had always appeared to him
a singular thing that their schools should be singled out
for attack and that the operation did not extend to the new
University College, the College of Surgeons, or Trinity
College. _ Owing to the fact that it was not compulsory
on the licensing authorities under the Poisons and Phar-
macy Act of 1908 to notify the Pharmaceutical Society of
the name of persons to whom licences were granted, the
Law Committee had had considerable difficulty in ascer-
taining accurate particulars of
ILLEGAL SALES OF POISONS ;
■and although they had reason to believe that the practice
-of poison-selling by unqualified and unlicensed persons was
still very prevalent, there was great difficulty experienced
in obtaining sufficient evidence to sustain a prosecution.
As these traders would only sell to persons known to them,
and as it was obviously impossible to get a local person
to make the purchase and take the necessary trouble in the
matter, their inspectors' visits were generally abortive.
These unsuccessful visits of their inspectors entailed a con-
siderable expense on the Society. The police, when they
moved in the matter, met with no better success. He had
compiled a list of the number of licences granted under
the 1908 Act by thirty-three licensing authorities in Ire-
land. He had been unable to get the figures for three —
namely, the counties of Cork, Fermanagh, and Kilkenny.
There were in all 443 licences, the largest number being
117 in County Galway, with 14 qualified dealers, the
lowest being Leitrim with none. There was one in each of
the counties of Louth, Monaghan, and Sligo, and two in
each of the counties of Antrim and Down. He had pre-
pared a list, which he would not now inflict upon them,
but which perhaps the journals would publish. It gave
a list for the different counties of the number of licences,
the number of sheep, and the number of qualified shops.
They had made a number of inquiries with regard to the
sale of poisons to ascertain if the regulations laid down
by the Privy Council were being carried out, and he was
afraid the shopkeepers were very lax in the matter of
having separate departments in their business premises for
the handling of these poisons. But the police up to the
present had not taken action, and the Council had held
their hands to see whether the police would move in the
matter of insisting upon the regulations being carried out.
One unqualified trader had been prosecuted and fined for
selling poisons. Two registered druggists were prosecuted
and fined for compounding medical prescriptions, and in
another case a registered druggist was fined for conducting
a branch shop without a qualified manager. In the matter
of finance the Treasurer would tell them that they had
been able to run the affairs of the Society within the
income, and that they had a small margin to spare. The
premises had required a considerable outlay to put them
in thorough repair and to overhaul the sewerage. In con-
clusion, he expressed thanks to his colleagues on the
Council for the ready assistance they had given him at all
times in the discharge of his duties as President, and also to
their worthy and most painstaking Registrar, Mr. Ferrall,
for the readiness with which he discharged all the duties
required of him, thereby making the routine work com-
paratively easy. (Applause.)
Financial Statement.
Mr. G. D. Beggs (the Treasurer) submitted the balance-
sheet. He said, although the balance to their credit was
small, it was very fair considering that they had had a
certain outlay on the house in order to keep it in proper
order. Economy combined with efficiency had been very
carefully observed. Then fees for the year amounted to
considerably less than last year, there being a falling off
of 581. There was a small increase of 81. in their sub-
scriptions. Taking the balance-sheet as it was laid before
them, they would find that their money capital had in-
creased by 135/. 0s. 11c?. He considered that the balance-
sheet should be in the hands of members at the same time
as the election dockets. With that view he would be very
happy to make arrangements to close their balance-sheet
a fortnight earlier than the annual meeting, and keep
over any accounts that may come in during the interval
and carry them forward, because he did not think it was
fair to the members of the Society to place such a mass of
figures before them just before the'meeting. The following
is a summary of the balance-sheet :
Income.
To balance due
Bank of Ireland
Fees
Subscriptions
£ s.
by
... 153 11
... 596 8
... 294 0
Dividends, fines,
and sundries
rents,
84 11 3
263 17
168 0
73 5
48 10
32 12
Expenditure.
Examiners' fees and
fees refunded
Registrar, Salary
" The Chemist and
Drug-gist "
Rent and taxes
Law costs
Travelling expenses
of Country Members
of Council
Purchase of 120Z.
4s. Wd. New 2\ pel-
cent. Stock 100
Balance due by Bank
of Ireland 168 7
Sundries 221 16
57 16 9
0 0
Total 1128 10 4 I Total 1128 10 4
The society's investments amount to 1.849Z. 0s. 5d.
Mr. Michie moved the adoption of the accounts.
Dr. Walsh seconded. He considered there would be a
difficulty in having the balance-sheet prepared as early as
had been suggested by Mr. Beggs. Most of the fees for the
October examinations came in between September 14 and
October 1, and should make a considerable difference in
their balance-sheet for the financial year if the books were
closed on September 14. He did not know whether there
was any by-law compelling them to make up their ac-
counts to September 30.
Mr. Beggs said he would like to see some means of
getting over the difficulty, which he did not think was
insurmountable.
Mr. Ferrall (Registrar) said it was laid down that the
financial year should commence on October 1 and ter-
minate on September 30 in the following year.
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October 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST
Gl
Mr. Beggs : Is there any difficulty in carrying over the
few accounts that come in after September 14?
The Registrar : I don't think so.
The accounts were unanimously adopted.
Life Membership.
Mr. Cahill said the great majority of the members did
not know of the advantage which they had of becoming
life members by the payment of ten guineas after they
became licentiates. If this fact were known they would
probably have more honorary members.
Mr. Wells said it might be an encouragement to the
younger members to pay their ten guineas if they knew
that Mr. Allen had paid 35?. 14s. into the funds of the
Society and that Mr. Beggs and himself had paid about
21. less. It would have been a good investment if they
had paid the ten guineas.
The President said the best way to get publicity for
Mr. Cahill's suggestion was that the reporter should take
a note of it and also of what Mr. Wells had stated.
Technical Schools.
A discussion took place in reference to the recognition
of the technical schools.
Dr. Walsh thought it would be far better not to have
the technical schools in the syllabus at all, inasmuch as
they had no control over them.
Dr. Ashe thought it would be a great mistake to recog-
nise them.
Mr. Wells considered they had acted very wisely in
the attitude they had adopted up to the present. He
considered the suggestion of the President a good one
that the technical schools should be availed of as a pre-
liminary to entering the schools in the society's list.
The proceedings then terminated.
Prescription Problem.
THE exercise given in our issue of September 17 proved
beyond the capacity of our readers both at home and
abroad, the apparent difficulty of the exercise making the
response much poorer than usual. We wish to remind com-
petitors, especially our Continental confreres, that tran-
scriptions sent in should be literatim, a letter incorrectly
given militating against the possibility of gaining a prize.
Our reading of the script is as follows :
Hydrobrom kali 15
Sir cort aur 25
Aq depurat 125
' d.s. 3xd. 1. 1.
den Heer v Hall.
The ingredients of the prescription gave but little diffi-
culty, although calcium and caffeine hydrobromides were
substituted in two instances. The main obstacle lay in
the directions, which in full are: "Da signa : 3 x daag
1 loffel." The cabalistic sign below the directions is given
variously as the physician's signature or v = voor or voll.
Replies to the next exercise, which is given below, should
be sent in not later than October 15. Four copies of " The
Chemist's Medical Dictionary " have been set aside as prizes.
Trade Report & Market Review.
The prices given in this section are those obtained by importers
or manufacturers for bulk quantities or original packages. To
tnese prices various charges have to be added, whereby
values are in many instances greatly augmented before whole-
sale dealers stock the goods. Qualities of chemicals, drugs,
oils, and many other commodities vary greatly, and higher
prices than those here quoted are obtained for selected
qualities of natural products even in bulk quantities. Retail
buyers cannot, therefore, for these and other reasons, expect
to purchase at these prices.
42 Cannon Street, London, EX., October 6.
I) EPORTS as to the condition of business in the chemical
^ and drug trades vary somewhat, but on the whole there
is a firm undertone, with a larger number of price-alterations
than usual. In the fine chemical section the principal
change is another advance (6<7.) in cocaine, but in the
absence of a convention, makers' prices are irregular. A
small and sudden advance (l^d. to lfrf.) took place in
bromides at the close of last week, makers selling for
prompt delivery only. The santonin advance (Is. 6d.) is
confirmed. English refined camphor is Id. lower as the
result of foreign competition. Quicksilver was reduced
last week, but mercurials are unaltered. Chrysarobin is
cheaper. Cream of tartar remains strong and again
higher, tartaric acid being firm. Among drugs and oik,
Sumatra benzoin is scarce and dearer privately, nothing
being offered at auction. Chamomiles are easier. Copaiba
is firmer. Clove oil is firm, but almond oil is tending
easier, as is cubeb oil. Hydrastis and Mogador orris are
dearer. Castor oil easier. The Smyrna opium market has
been partially closed this week, and prices are unaltered,
but the undertone is regarded as strong. Rhatany and
valerian are cheaper. Menthol and Japanese peppermint
oil have been active at advancing rates, the chief outlet
being for export. Star-aniseed oil of undoubted purity is
firm and scarce. Acacia gums are also firm, spot prices
having advanced considerably during the past fortnight.
The following are the principal changes of the week, in-
cluding those recorded at the drug auctions :
Higher
Firmer
Easier
Lower
Benzoin (Sum.)
Bromides
Cardamoms
Cocaine
Coca leaves
(Ceylon)
Orris (Mog.)
Santonin
Shellac
Benzols
Copaiba
Cream of
tartar
Hydrastis
Menthol
Wood oil
Boldo leaves
Castor oil
Chamomiles
Chrysarobin
Cod-liver oil
Valerias root
Buchu
Calumba
Camphor
(Kng. ref.)
Indiarubber
Ipecacuanha
Pimento
Quicksilver
Rhatany
1 <hC 'ngfa~'
Index Folio 563
Cablegram.
New York, October 6. — Business in drugs is moderate.
Opium is nominal at $4.75 per lb. for druggists by single
cases. Peppermint oil in tins is firm at $2.25 per lb. Jalap
is easier at 45c. Hydrastis (golden seal) is firm at $2.25.
Iodides have been advanced by 10c. Cascara sagrada and
copaiba are unaltered.
London Markets.
Acid, Tartaric, is firm at 10fd. per lb. for foreign and
at Is. for English.
Aniseed. — New crop Russian for present shipment from
Hamburg is quoted 24s. per cwt. c.i.f. for at least half -ton
lots. The spot market is quiet at 23s. 6d. to 24s. 6d. per
cwt. for ordinary to good Russian and 35s. for Spanish.
Balsam Toltj. — A jobbing demand is reported at lid.
per lb. for large tins.
Benzoin. — Owing to the paucity of supplies nothing was
offered at auction to-day. Privately there are only one or
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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST
OCTOBEK S, 1910
two small parcels in first-hands, the price of good Sumatra
seconds being 8/. per cwt.
Benzols. — Firmer at from 6c?. to 6^d. per gal. for 90 per
cent., and 7c?. for 50 per cent.
Boldo -leave s are cheaper, fresh supplies having been re-
ceived in Hamburg. 5d. per lb. c.i.f. will buy.
Bromides. — On October 1 the makers advanced the price
of potassium bromide by l\d. per lb. to ll^c?. for 1-cwt.
lots. Ammonium and sodium were also advanced by lfc?.
to Is. 2§ d. and Is. lfc?. per lb. respectively, all net. These
prices are for prompt delivery only, no forward contracts
being booked. Most second-hand holders now ask lid.
per lb. ; previous to the advance a fair business was done
in such parcels at slightly under these figures.
Camphor (Refined). — The English refiners have reduced
the price of bells by Id. per lb. to Is. lid. and to Is. lOd.
in 1-cwt. lots. Blocks are also Id. lower at Is. lOd. for
5, and 1 lb. in 7, 14, or 28 lb. boxes, with other sizes at pro-
portionate prices. Sellers of Japanese 2j-lb. slabs
quote Is. 5c?. per lb. c.i.f. for November -January shipment.
In auction 17 cases of ^-oz Japanese tablets were limited at
Is. iyt. per lb. net.
Canary-seed is steady but slow of sale at 41s. per quarter
for Turkish and ordinary Morocco, at 46s. to 52s. 6c?. for
medium to fine Morocco, and 65s. to 75s. for good to fine
bold Spanish.
Caraway-seed is unchanged at 25s. per cwt. for new
crop and 27s. for good old crop Dutch on the spot.
, Chamomiles are easier, with first Belgian pickings obtain-
able at 95s., seconds at 80s., and thirds at 75s. ; old flowers
offer at 62s. 6c?. upwards.
Chrysarobin. — The makers now quote 6s. 6d. per lb.
net, a reduction of 6d.
Cinchona. — The exports from Java during September
amounted to 1,814,000 Amsterdam lb., against 2,016,000
Amsterdam lb. during September 1909. The total ship-
ments from January to September amount to 14,032,000
Amsterdam lb., against 11,681,000 Amsterdam lb.
Cocaine. — As anticipated last week, the market has
has further advanced (6c?.), one of the leading makers
now quoting 8s. 5d. per oz. less 5 per cent, for hydrochloride
in 200-oz. lots, while another having sold a fair quantity
at 8s. 2c?. appears to have withdrawn that price. In second
hands business has been done at 7s. 3d. net, but 7s. 6c?. net
is now a more general quotation.
Copaiba Balsam is firmer, with sales of guaranteed
filtered B.P. at from Is. 8±d. to Is. 9c?. per lb.
Copper Sulphate since last quoted has advanced 5s. to
181. 10s. per ton for ordinary Liverpool makes, and to 191.
for spring delivery.
Coriander-seed is steady but quiet at 15s. 6d. to 16s. 6d.
per cwt. for wormy Morocco and 18s. to 19s. for good
sound old crop. The new crop is difficult of sale on account
of its weathered condition. Russian is offering at 16s.,
and good English old crop at 27s. 6d. to 30s. per cwt.
Cream of Tartar remains a very strong market at a
further advance of Is., the closing quotations being 88s.
for 95 per cent., 90s. for 98 per cent., and 91s. for 99 to
100 per cent.
Creosote, ex-Beechwood, has been advanced in one
quarter to Is. 8d. per lb. net in 20 kilo, demijohns.
Cumin-seed is unchanged at 33s. to 37s. per cwt. for
common to good sifted Morocco and 38s. to 42s. f or ordinary
to fine Malta.
Fenugreek-seed sells slowly at 8s. 6d. to 9s. for weathered
and 10s. 6c?. for good Morocco.
Ginger. — Nothing offered at auction. Privately the sales
include fair washed Cochin at from 48s. to 48s. 6d.
Hexamethylentetramine is dearer at from Is. lOd. to
Is. 11c?. per lb. net as to quantity.
Hydrastis. — Since we last quoted, the price has further
advanced, practically the only holders asking 9s. 9c?. per lb.
net. A large export business to the Continent has been
done recently.
Indiarubber. — At auction about 210 tons plantation-
rubber offered, and sold at an average decline of Is., while
the price of fine hard Para has declined about Is. 6c?. since
the last sale. A good business has been done privately,
Index F
chiefly in distant positions at from 5s. 9c?. to 5s. ll^rf., spot
closing at 5s. 10c?. for hard fine.
Juniper-oil distilled from the berry is cheaper at
18s. 6c?. per lb. for finest English.
Lime-juice. — Concentrated West Indian is firm with a
fair business at 18?. 15s.
Linseed is firm again after a slight reaction. Dutch is
quoted 75s. and Morocco 72s. 6c?. to 75s. per quarter.
Lycopodium is firm and only sparingly offered from
Russia at Is. l^d. per lb. c.i.f. for treble-sifted quality.
Menthol. — With continued buying for American
account, all the cheap parcels of Kobayashi and Suzuki were
cleared on Saturday last, about 50 cases changing hands
at mostly 10s. 3c?., but since smaller sales have been made
at from 10s. 6c?. to 10s. 9c?., with lis. asked. To arrive a
fair business has been done, including October- November
shipment at 10s. l^c?. to 10s. 3c?. c.i.f. for Kobayashi, and
Suzuki at 10s. lc?. for November-December, and buyers.
The exports of menthol from Japan during July were
6.584 kin, valued at 35,205 yen; for the seven months ending:
July 31 the exports were : 1910, 61,206 kin, value 317,294 yen ;
1909, 50,666 kin, value 236,516 yen ; and 1908, 36,960 kin, value-
174,424 yen.
Morphine. — Prices are unaltered at from 6s. 6c?. to
6s. 9c?. per oz. for hydrochloride powder, second hands-
offering at 6s. 4c?. per oz.
Oil, Almond. — Raw material being in better supply,-
prices, which are as yet unaltered, may decline slightly :
2s. to 2s. lc?. per lb. is quoted for true B.P. Peacli-kernel
oil is quoted at from 11c?. to Is. net as to quantity.
Oil, Aniseed Star. — Genuine oil is firm at from 5s. to
5s. 3c?. per lb. as to quantity, and to arrive from 4s. 5^c?. to
4s. 6c?. c.i.f. is quoted. The dispute referred to last week-
does not yet appear to have been settled.
Oil, Bergamot, remains firm at primary sources, as the
available supply is but small, and the prospects for the
new crop are not brilliant. There are no offers of new
crop as yet; from 15s. to 15s. 6c?. per lb. c.i.f. is quoted.
Oil, Castor, is easier, Hull make of medicinal quality
offering at 33?. 15s., and first pressing at 31?. 5s. per ton in
barrels for prompt to December, delivered free on wharf
London ; cases 50s. per ton extra. Belgian firsts for prompt
delivery is 31?. 10s. ex wharf.
Oil, Clove, is firm at from 3s. 6^c?. to 3s. 8c?. per lb. for
English distilled as to quantity.
Oil, Cod-liver. — Our Bergen correspondent writes on
October 3 that market is dull, and very little business is
being done ; finest non- congealing Lofoten cannot be quoted!
above 109s. 6c?. to 110s. per barrel c.i.f. terms. The total
exports from all Norway to date amount to about 25,100
barrels, against 26,300 barrels at the same date of 1909.
Oil, Lemon. — According to Sicilian advices, the market
is unchanged on the basis of from 3s. 4c?. to 3s. 6c?. per lb.
c.i.f. The principal demand in Sicily has been from Ger-
many, English buyers still holding off the market.
Oil, Lime. — Good West Indian distilled is quoted Is. 5c?.
to Is. 6c?. per lb., and hand-pressed at 5s. 9c?. to 6s., with
small supplies.
Oil, Orange. — The demand from Sicily is reported to be
fairly active for both prompt and new crop, and sellers
are endeavouring to obtain better prices ; from 6s. per lb.
c.i.f. London and upwards is quoted.
Oil, Peppermint. — The chief interest has centred in
Japanese demenETiolised, fair sales of which have been made
at from 6s. 3c?. to 6s. 6c?. spot for Kobayashi. To arrive,
the sales include Kobayashi for September- October and
October-November shipments at 6s. 2c?. to 6s. 3c?. c.i.f.r
and Suzuki for November-December at 5s. ll^c?. to 6s.
c.i.f. American HGH is offered at 12s. 6c?., London terms,
at which sales have been made, and good Wayne County
tin oil at 10s. spot, or 10s. c.i.f. In the drug-auction 10>
cases of Suzuki were bought in at 6s. 6c?. per lb.
The exports from Japan during July were 6,332 kin, valued!
at 19,496 yen; for the seven months (January to July) the-
figures are :
1908 1909 1910
Yen 56,152 95.123 92.617
Kin 163,322 278.087 283,336
Oil, Turpentine, closes at 53s. 9c?. per cwt. for American)
on the spot.
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OCTOBEE 8, 1910
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
63
Opium. — Owing to native holidays in Smyrna several days
this week, market has been closed, and the quotation for
11£ per cent, remains unchanged at 12s. 6d. per lb. c.i.f.
Persian 10 per cent, is offered forward at 15s. , which is, of
•course, prohibitive.
A Smyrna correspondent writes on September 23 that the
sales amount to 200 cases, as follows :
33 cases for U.S.A., selected t.q. at. 13s.
18 cases for U.S.A., extra t.q. at 13s. 6d.
100 cases for Japan, extra t.q. at 13s. 6d.
1 case for the Continent, extra t.q. at 13 s. 6d.
48 cases for Speculators, extra t.q. at 13s. 6d.
It will be noted from the above that the prices have declined
Iby bd. per lb. from last week's figures, but if Japan and the
U.S.A. continue to buy largely prices are likely to advance
.again. The arrivals to date amount to 3,319 cases, against
1,426 cases. — Another Smyrna correspondent advises us under
•date of September 24 that the sales amounted to 175 cases for
America at 120 piastres for first choice Karahissar (13s. 4cZ.)
and 125 piastres for Karahissar merchandise (13s. 9d.) c.i.f.
European ports. A slight concession on the part of holders
facilitated these important deals, and as the situation is ab-
normal and the advance too 6udden, much tension character-
ises the situation, and fluctuations may be expected.
Speculators are buying at the prices quoted above.
Petroleum. — Prices are nominal in view of the oil war.
Prussian is quoted 5^d. to 5fcZ., and American 5ft/. to b^d.
spot.
Potassium Iodide. — The exports from Japan during July
were 1,951 kin, valued at 8,657 yen. For the seven months
<(January-July) the figures are :
1908 1909 1910
Kin 15,123 15,482 35 730
Yen 63,563 71,619 161,224
Of crude iodine the exports so far this year amount to
6,023 kin, as against 10,735 kin in 1909 and 8,617 kin in
1908.
Quicksilver. — On Thursday (September 29) the principal
importer reduced his price by 5s. per bottle to 81. 7s. 6d.,
and in second-hands 81. Is. to 8/. 2s. is quoted. Mercurials
are unaltered.
Quinine is unaltered on the basis of l^d. per oz. for
German sulphate from makers, and 6§<7. from second-hands ;
Amsterdam is offered at b^d., and Java at 6^d. to 6|rf.
per oz. The landings in London during September were
195,200 oz., and the deliveries 62,672 oz., leaving a stock on
September 30 of 3,665,856 oz., against 3,237,408 oz. in 1909.
Rhatany. — With plentiful arrivals on the Continent
prices have declined, and there are now offers of good to fine
coot at from 54.cZ. to 5jrf. per lb. c.i.f. terms.
Santonin.' — As indicated in our last, the makers advanced
their prices by Is. bd. per lb. to 43s. 3rf. net per lb., the
quotation for 2 cwt. in one delivery being 39s. Zd. net.
Senega. — Small spot sales have been made at Is. 11c?. per
ib. net, and to arrive Is. ll^cZ. c.i.f. is quoted. Letter
advices indicate that prices will go clearer, but the spot
■market is well supplied at present.
Shellac is dearer, fair TN being now quoted at 86s.
spot, October-December shipment at 84s. 6d., and AC for
December -January has been sold at 78s. bd. c.i.f. A
good business has been done in futures at advancing prices,
about 1,500 cases changing hands on Wednesday.
Soda Crystals.- — The London price is 60s. per ton in
barrels and 57s. bd. in bags, while, as already intimated,
there is to be a reduction of 5s. to the home trade for the
first three months of 1911.
Stavesacre Seed continues scarce, with a parcel offering
for shipment at 46s. bd. per cwt. c.i.f.
Terpin Hydrate has been advanced as the result of an
arrangement among makers, who quote from Is. l^d. to
Is. 2^d. per lb. as to quantity.
Valerian. — There are offers of the new crop at the easier
urate of 26s. bd. per cwt. c.i.f.
Wax, Japan. — Good squares are steady at 42s. bd. to 43s. ,
and for November-December shipment price is firm at
42s. c.i.f.
Wood-oil is dearer since last quoted, with spot sales of
Hankow up to 33s. per cwt., and November- January ship-
ment up to 33s. bd. c.i.f.
London Drug-auctions.
At the auctions of first-hand drugs the offerings were much
smaller than usual, the sales concluding at 12.30. No Cape
aloes offered, while Curacao, Socotrine, and Zanzibar in cases
were neglected. Benzoin was not offered. Buchu declined
substantially for round leaf. Ceylon coca-leaves were 2d.
dearer for good green. Calumba is lower, and cardamoms,
which are scarce, brought higher prices. .Colocynth is firm and
dragon's-blood quiet, with no good reboiled on offer. Acacia
gums are strong, Kordofan soft gum selling at an advance of
2s. bd. per cwt. Full rates were paid for middling Jamaica
honey. Matto Grosso ipecac, was 3d. to bd. cheaper, and East
Indian about 2d. cheaper than last sale. Rhubarb was quiet.
Lima-Jamaica sarsaparilla was fully Id. dearer, no grey
Jamaica being offered. Native is plentiful, and hangs fire.
Seedlac and scablac were in more demand. No senna offered.
Beeswax was in demand at generally firmer rates. The fol-
lowing table shows the quantity of goods offered and sold :
Aloes— Offered Sold
Curasao (boxes) 25 ... 0
Socotrine (kegs) 20 ... 0
Zanzibar (cs.) ... 17 ... 0
Anise (Russ.) 40 ... 0
Balsam —
Peru 5 ... 0
Belladonna-root... 5 ... *2
Buchu 44 .„ 11
Calumba 269 ... 67
Camphor —
Jap ref 17 ... 0
Canella alba 5 ... 0
Cannabis indica ... 8 ... 0
Cardamoms & seed 53 ... 50
Cascarilla 8 ... 3
Castorum (keg) ... 1 ... 0
Coca-leaves 94 ... 75
Cochineal 5 ... 5
Colocynth 5 ... *1
Copaiba balsam ... 10 ... 0
Cubebs 36 ... 0
Cuttle-fishbone... 50... 0
Digitalis-leaves ... 2 ... 2
Dragon's-blood ... 11 ... 2
Ergot 10 ... 0
Gamboge 14 ... 0
Gum acacia 135 ... 86
Honey —
Jamaica 76 ... 33
St. Lucia 5 ... 5
Ipecacuanha—
Cartagena 2
East Indian 35
Offered Sold
Matto Grosso
Minas
Jalap
Kola
17
4
18
22
1
*35
12
0
6
22
Myrrh 15
Nux vomica 79
Oil-
cinnamon 10
copaiba 2
lime 13
peppermint 10
Orange-peel 7
Orris (Mog.) 15
Pepper (white) ... 11
Rhatany 7
Rhubarb (China) 12
Sandarac 1
Sarsaparilla —
Lima 18
Mexican 2
Native Jam 28
Scablac... 17
(Seedlac 65
Senna—
Tinnevelly 1
Squill 5
Tamarinds —
W.I 50
Tonka beans 1
Turmeric 152
Wax (bees')—
Australian 8
East African ... 2
East Indian 4 L
Jamaica 38
Madagascar 10
Mombasa 3
Morocco 11
Mozambique ... 72
West Indian ... 1
Zanzibar 54
6
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
0
0
2
1
14
0
4
17
25
1
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
7
0
0
0
72
1
0
Sold privately.
Aloes. — The 11 cases Cape, catalogued, did not arrive in
time for the sale; 25 boxes Curacao were offered and held
at 38s. for black capey, the highest bid being 36s. Of Zanzi-
bar in wooden cases without tins, 12 were offered and held
at 75s. for fair, but very soft. Socotrine in kegs were held
at 80s. per cwt.
Belladonna Root. — Five bales offered, of which two had
been sold at private rates, and for the remainder 42s. bd.
per cwt. gross for net was wanted, the parcel testing .5 per
cent, of alkaloids.
Buchu sold at a decline of from Is. bd. to Is. Id. per lb.
for short broad, two bales of fair stalky leaf finding
buyers at 3s. llfZ. per lb. For 4 bags of fair greenish
ovals Is. bd. was paid, and for very stalky ovals Is. to
Is. Id. Long-ovals sold at Is. 2d., and Is. Id. was also
paid for green longs. From another catalogue 32 packages
were offered and all bought in at nominal rates, no bids
being made.
Calumba was offered in quantity and partly sold at
lower rates, as holders are anxious to make progress;
51 bags of small to bold natural sorts sold at from 26s. bd.
to 27s. bd., and for various lots of sea-damaged from
15s. to 16s. was paid. Other lots were bought in at
from 22s. to 30s.
Cardamoms being scarce met with good competition at
dearer rates as follows : Ceylon, Mysores, fair bold dullish,
2s. bd. ; medium to bold dullish, 2s. 4c7. ; small and
medium dullish, 2s. Id. ; medium brownish dull, 2s. Id. ;
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64
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST
October 8, 1910
small palish, Is. 10(7. to Is. 11(7. ; splits, Is. 9(7. to Is. 10(7. ;
pale to good seed, Is. 9(7. to Is. 10(7. per lb. Very few .
arrivals have taken place recently, as" evidenced by the
meagre supply of S3 cases offered to-day.
Cascarilla. — No quill was offered, but 3 barrels of dusty
sittings sold without reserve at from 34s. to 36s. per cwt.
Coca-leaves realised an advance of 2(7. per lb., 55
packages Ceylon-Huanoco selling at Is. 8(7. for good green
and Is. 6(7. for fair brownish. In another instance Id.
was paid for 20 packages thin broken Java of Truxillo
character.
Cochineal. — Five bags of common black Teneriffe eold
without reserve at 3^(7. per lb.
Colocynth had been partly sold privately at Is. per lb.
for small to bold pale selected Turkey apple, and for
3 cases of ordinary broken the buying-in price was 9(7.
Copaiba. — For 10 cases unfiltered Bahia Is. 8(7. was
asked. Privately sales of guaranteed B.P. have been made
at from Is. 8^(7. to Is. 9(7.
Cubebs. — Fair, slightly, berries were limited at 97. 10s.
per cwt. About 100 bags from various sources have arrived.
Digitalis-leaves. — Two bales of fair greenish sold at
52s. per cwt., no discount, gross for net. Privately
holders ask 50s. c.i.f.
Dragon's-blood. — No good re-boiled lump was offered.
For a single case of hard dull re-boiled mixed lump 87.
was paid, and duller seedy at 67. 10s. ; 14 packages have
arrived from Singapore this week.
Ergot. — In auction 5 bags of Ruesian were limited at
Is. 6(7. for sound and 5 bags of Spanish new crop at Is. 8(7.
Gum, Acacia. — Privately the market for Sudan sorts is
firm, up to 42s., it is said, having been paid on the spot.
Persian so-called insoluble sorts are firm, the sales includ-
ing small white at 25s. and sorts at 22s. 6(7. per cwt. spot.
In auctions of fair small glassy Sudan sorts sold at 35s. 6(7.
to 36s., and for 29 bags pale soft Kordofan 52s. 6(7. was
paid, an advance of 2s. 6(7., while four serons brown Bar-
bary went at 30s. per cwt.
Honey. — Jamaica sold at full rates, no fine quality being
offered. Darkish to fair brown liquid in barrels sold at from
23s. to 25s. per cwt., fair set and pale setting brown at
27s. to 28s. 6d. Five casks of fair pale liquid brown St.
Lucia realised from 23s. 6(7. to 24s.
Ipecacuanha. — The chief offering was a new lot of
35 bales East Indian root, which has been analysed by
Otto Hehner, who certified 2.28 per cent, of total alkaloids
by weight, the broker also stating that this analysis showed
that the parcel was the best they had so far received.
According to exterior appearance the root was by no means
so plump as some of the earlier shipments. Only two bales
of sittings sold publicly, 5s. 8(7. being paid, and the remain-
ing 32 bales were firmly held at 6s. The broker afterwards
disposed of the parcel privately immediately after leaving
the rostrum, 6s. being paid. Of Matto Grosso 12 bales
sold at from 5s. 10(7. to 6s. per lb. for mostly ordinary
dull lean to fair, and for one bale of good bright 6s. 4(7.
was paid. A bag of common lean Cartagena sold at 5s. 4(7.
per lb.
Jalap is firm, but quiet. In auction 2s. 1(7. was wanted
for 12.86 per cent, resin, and for a lot of untested 2s. to
2s. 1(7. was asked.
Kola. — Scarce and in demand, the sales including
20 bags West Indian at 3^(7. to 3-^(7. for fair bright halves,
and 2|(7. for mouldy.
Myrrh. — Only Somali grains were offered and bought
in at 40s., an offer of 36s. being refused; six bales of dust
realised 22s. 6a.
Orange-peel. — Dull Maltese strip without reserve sold
at 4^(7. per lb. for 7 cases.
Orris. — Privately the market is firmer with a fair in-
quiry for Mogador, stocks of which are now very bare on
spot; up to 25s. is asked. At auction 6 serons small to
bold pale selected Morocco were held at 27s. 6(7., fair bold
at 25s., and fair leanish at 22s. 6(7.
Sandarac. — A small sale of ordinary1 blocky Morocco
was made at 52s. 6(7.
Sarsaparilla. — No grey Jamaica offered, neither is any
obtainable from second-hands. Of Lima-Jamaica 16 bales
sold at Is. 1(7. for good selected, and at Is. for fair.
Native Jamaica is plentiful and neglected, only 4 bales
selling at 6^(7. per lb. for common dull mixed red and
yellow. Two bales of Mexican also offered and held at
10(7. per lb.
Scablac. — Ten bags small dusty Madras realised 57s. 6(7.,
and for blocky 25s. was paid.
Seedlac was in more demand, the sales including 25 bags
of fair, bright orange at 65s. per cwt.
Wax, Bees', was in fair request, 72 packages Mozambique
finding buyers at 67. 7s. 6(7. for drossy balls, 67. 10s.
for small pale balls, 77. 2s. 6(7. for fair rolls yellow to dark,
and from 6Z. 5s. to 6Z. 7s. 6(7. for dark rolls. A single case
of good pale West Indian sold at 87. 2s. 6d., and 13 packages
Jamaica realised from 7Z. 12s. 6(Z. to 7Z. 15s. per cwt. for
rather dark mixed to fair red and brown. Two bags East
African sold at 6Z. 12s. 6(7. per cwt.
Manchester Chemical-market.
October 4.
The unfortunate dispute in the cotton-trade continues, and
with the gradual stoppage of the bulk of mills there is a
growing lack of confidence in the future. No doubt the
demand for heavy chemicals will be affected, but so far the
home demand has not lessened, although it is rather quiet.
On export account there is a brisk inquiry. Stocks of bleach-
ing-powder are rather low, but there is no change to_ not© in
prices for current delivery. There is a good business in
caustic soda at the lower range of prices which came into
operation recently. Sulphate of copper is a shade steadier
at from 187. 7s. 6(7. to 187. 10s. per ton, best brands, Man-
chester. There are some lots still in second hands which
arc being cleared at a concession on these rates. Borax is
in good inquiry. Sulphur is steady at 7Z. 15s. to 87. per ton
in 2-cwt. bags ; roll, in 3-cwt. barrels, 67. Is. bd. ; rock, 5?. 5s.
per ton ; recovered, 47. 5s to 47. 12s. 6(7. per ton— all on rails
at works. Arsenic very quiet at 117. 17s. 6(7. to 127. 5s. per
ton, Manchester. Acetic acid is steady. In coal-tar pro-
ducts, sulphate of ammonia is held for high rates— 127. 8s. 9(7.
to 127. 10s. per ton.
Heavy Chemicals.
There is considerable animation in the heavy chemical
market just now, and both manufacturers and merchants are
concluding a large amount of business for prompt and for-
ward delivery on home and export account. Values rule on
the steady side, with recent advances well maintained.
Sulphate of Ammonia. — With this product on the scarce
side quotations remain very steady, and in some quarters
further advances are looked for. Available parcels have
been well taken up, and a better business has been done on
forward account. Present nearest values are : Beckton,
25 per cent, ammonia guaranteed, prompt 12?. 3s. 9(7. to
127. 5s., and forward 127. 6s. 3(7. to 127. 7s. 6(7. net cash;
London, 12?. 2s. 6(7. net cash; Leith. 127. 17s. 6(7.; Hull,
12?. 15s. to 127. 16s. 3(7. ; and Liverpool, 127. 15s. to 127. 16s. 3(7.
Alumina Products are in good average demand, and prices
are well maintained. Contracts are being taken out well,
and already a good proportion of business has been concluded
for 1911 delivery, and for the most part at full rates. Crystal
alum lump, 57. 5s. to 57. 12s. 6(7. ; lump in tierces, 57. 10s. to
57. 17s. 6(7. ; and ground in bags, 57. 15s. to 67. 2s. 6(7. per ton
free on rails Lancashire or Yorkshire, or f.o.b. Hull. Goole,
or Liverpool. Sulphate of alumina— purest qualities m
better and more regular request. Ordinary strength quality,
practically free of iron, 47. 12s. 6(7. to 57. 2s. 6(7. per ton in
casks, with customary allowances for bags and loose slabs,
and usual extras for similar pure quality in higher concen-
trations. Aluminous cake, 50s. to 57s. 6(7., and alumino-
ferric 50s. to 57s. bd. per ton, according to quality, quantity,
and destination. The demand on miscellaneous account has
been a shade quieter. Hydrate of alumina, purest quality
and high strength AW,, keeps in good average demand at
127. 10s. to 137. 10s. per ton, free on rails in large casks.
Petroleum Price War.
A declaration has been made by the Standard Oil Co in
which it is stated that in view of the enormous over-produc-
tion of crude oil the company has inaugurated a campaign
to increase the world's consumption of refined oil by a
reduction of the price abroad, and especially in the Far East.
Without going into details, this latest " move " is looked
upon as an attempt to crush out competition by a system of
prolonged and heavy underselling of rival companies, and
also to prevent the formation of new competition. It is stated
that the Standard Oil Co. is on this occasion acting on the
defensive against the onslaughts of European capital. The
fight will nrobably be the biggest in its history, and the end,
it is believed, will be an agreement or entente in which
European oil interests will be able to dictate terms.
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English Peppermint Oil.
A crop of peppermint grown at the outfall works of the
Cobham (Surrey) sewage-farm has been sold for 75/., the oil
realising 24s. per lb. [It may be added that this price is no
guide to current market quotations for oil distilled from other
Surrey-grown peppermint, which is from 28s. to 29s. per
lb— Ed.]
Java Cinchona.
In our issue of October 1 (p. 529) we mentioned that a small
committee had been formed in Java to look after the interests
of cinchona-planters. This committee was appointed at a
meeting of planters held in Batavia on August 16, and it
consists of Heer Lovink (Director of Agriculture in the Dutch
East Indies), Heer Dinger (director of -4he Dutch-Indian
Banking Co.), Heer Buss (President of the Dutch East Indian
Chamber of Commerce), Heer van Riemsdijk (Secretary of
the Preanger-Bond), and Heer Leverijn, of the firm of Tiede-
mann & Van Kerchem. The committee proposes in the first
instance to appoint a statistician to make an inquiry
into the present position of every branch of the cinchona-
industry, and at the meeting in question a substantial sum
was collected to defray the costs of this inquiry, which will
be carried on under the supervision of Heer Lovink.
The American Tariff.
The executive committee of the Manufacturing Chemists'
Association of the U.S.A. conferred with Chairman Emery
and Mr. A. H. Sanders, of the Tariff Board, on September 24.
The object of the conference was to ascertain to what
extent manufacturing chemists of the United States would
co-operate with the Board in its investigation to ascer-
tain the cost of production in the country of the main items
in the chemical schedule of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
A schedule has been prepared by the Tariff Board, and the
representatives of the manufacturing chemists of the
country were invited to examine and criticise it and to offer
suggestions as to practical lines upon which information
could be obtained, such information to be held confidential.
The schedule of queries will be made public in order that
manufacturers throughout the country interested in the in-
quiries may know just what is desired.
Sicilian Citrate Materials.
The Italian " Gazzetta Ufficiale " of July 30 contains the
text of the amended law, dated July 17, providing for the
regulation of the Sicilian citrus-industry, official information
in regard to which was published in our issue of August 13
(p. 260). It may now be added that the Government is obliged
by this law to present to Parliament, not later than Decem-
ber 31 next, a Bill for the reconstruction of the administration
of the " Camera Agrumaria." It may also be stated that
H.M. Consul at Palermo has furnished the following par-
ticulars, taken from the Government Commission report,
recently issued. The Government Commission was, inter alia,
appointed to advise as to the mode of fixing the " minimum
price " of valuation of deposit warrants of the " Camera Agru-
maria," as provided for under the law of July 17 :
The average annual lemon-crop is estimated at 50,000,000,000
fruits (8,000 citrus-fruits = about 1 metric ton), of which 50 per
cent, is exported as fruit, 40 per cent, is converted into citrate
and essence, and 10 per cent, is consumed at home and pickled.
Citrate of lime :
Metric tons
Estimated stock on November 30, 1910 ... 6,200
production, 1910-11 7.000
sales. 1910-11 5,800
unsold surplus, 1910-11 1,200
Tt is suggested that the "minimum price" shall be fixed
at the same proportion of the gross sale-price, less duties to the
Chamber and cost of analysis and brokerage, as is the esti-
mated quantity to be sold during the season in question of the
estimated production during that season. Thus the gross sale-
price being at present 159 lire per 100 kilos., or 152 lire after
deduction of dues to the Chamber, etc., the " minimum price "
for 1910-11 = 5'8°°0*i^ lire per 100 kilos. = (about) 126 lire per
100 kilos.
In Metric Prescriptions. — For two-ounce mixtures pre-
scribed in one-drachm doses, prescribe as many grams or c.c.
of the drug as are desired grains or minims of the drug to
each drachm dose of the mixture.— Dr. M. S. Woodbury.
Drug-stores Association of Great Britain. — On account of
the illness of the President (Mr. W. Huntrods), members are
requested to send all communications either to the Treasurer,
Mr. J. B. Clarkson, Elland Road. Leeds, or the Secretary,
Mr. A. Dobson, Grove Cottage, Morley. _ Letters received
-during the past fortnight will be answered in due course.
Our German Letter.
(From a Special Correspondent.)
"A Young: Daughter of an apotheker, possessing a hand-
some trousseau, who longs for a happy home, and has enjoyed
a domestic and practical education, at present occupied in
a pharmacy, wishes to be happily married and to assist her
husband in the business." So reads an advertisement in
the " Pharm. Zeit." of October 1, 1910.
German Chemical Industry — At the recent annual
meeting of the Society for the Protection of the Interests of
the German Chemical Industry, the General Secretary gave
some interesting information regarding the economic position
of Germany's chemical-industry during the past year. On
examining the balance-sheets of 176 joint-stock companies,
working with a nominal capital of 30,550,000/., and possessing
10,200,000?. reserve funds, it is found that the average divi-
dend paid out was 9.35 per cent., against 9.25 in 1908. The
profits of the different companies vary considerably, for of
the 176 under consideration, thirty-seven were worked at a
loss or without profit, twenty-three did not pay more than
5 per cent., while 138 (or 78.4 per cent.) were not able to pay
the average dividend ; this leaves only thirty-eight which
were able to show a really high return on the capital invested.
The works were, on the whole, kept fairly busy ; the demand
for chemical products from abroad, and also from the home
market, increased, especially during the second half of the
past year. However, increased competition has led to a
decrease in prices in certain lines, so that profitable working
is practically excluded. Improved trade-conditions and a
higher return was observed in the production of scientific,
pharmaceutical, photographic, and technical chemicals, arti-
ficial silk, coal-tar products, explosives, and indiarubber
goods. A decrease took place in the manufacture of acids and
alkalis, artificial manures, and in the Saxon-Thuringian
brown-coal industry.
Ehrlich's Hew Preparation for the treatment of
syphilis seems to have had a demoralising effect upon the
ethics of a portion of the German medical profession, and
loud complaints are being made in the medical Press about
the unprofessional conduct of many doctors. In view of the
peculiar nature of many of the acts complained of, it is
interesting to note that indignant inquiries are being made
as to the reason why the medical courts of honour have been
so long silent in this matter ; it would appear as if the
mechanism for upholding an official code of ethics had failed
in this case. In the first place it is pointed out that the doctor
who makes use in his practice of a preparation not in general
use by the whole of the profession is liable for any results that
may ensue to his patients, both from the criminal as well
as from the civil aspect. Another point is that hitherto it has
been the custom to try new preparations only in clinics or
hospitals, and not in private practice. But the greatest
grievance is that in many cases the results of this form of
treatment have been published in the lay Press before appear-
ing in the professional journals, and that medical men grant
interviews and discuss the subject openly with reporters of
daily papers, a course which is severely condemned. In fact,
more information on the subject has appeared in the daily
Press than in the professional Press, and many utterances
of the leading authorities on this form of treatment have been
given prominence in the former long before they appeared in
the latter. In the " Berliner Tagblatt " recently there was an
advertisement stating that Dr. N. N. would be on a certain
date in large towns of Germany to give injections of Ehrlich-
Hata " 606," appointments to be made beforehand. It is
only fair to state, however, that in many cases patients have
been treated with a preparation supposed to be the original
but not supplied by Ehrlich. The mode of distribution of
the preparation is also severely condemned in one of the
leading medical journals. Why should one doctor receive a
sample which is refused to another, is asked, and on what
grounds is the distribution made ? It is regarded as a very
regrettable state of affairs that a chosen few should be
permitted to reap a rich harvest at the expense of the re-
mainder of their colleagues, who are not in a position to use
the remedy. The pecuniary side of the question is coming
in for a good deal of discussion. At a recent meeting of
medical men it was pointed out that with the introduction of
Ehrlich's remedy, necessitating one single_ injection to effect
a cure, the professional outlook was distinctly bad. Phar-
macists, too, do not view the new preparation with unmixed
admiration. In the first place, the reports as to_ the diffi-
culties of preparing the solution for injection point to the
fact that the manufacturers will endeavour to place it on the
market in some form ready for use; and, secondly, if one
injection effects a cure, how about prescriptions for ung.
hydrargyri, pot. iod., and all the synthetics?
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October 8, 1910^
Memoranda for Correspondents.
All communications must be accompanied by the names and
addresses of the writers, otherwise they are not recorded.
Queries by subscribers on dispensing, legal, and miscellaneous
subjects pertaining to pharmacy and its allied trades are
replied to in these columns, if they are of general interest.
Letters submitted to the Editor for publication (if suitable)
should be written on one side of the paper only. Their publica-
tion in the ' C. & D." does not imply our agreement with the
opinions of the writers.
Ether for South Africa.
Sir, — Your leader under the above heading in your issue
of September 24 places importers, and therefore exporters,
in at least an anomalous position. Your readers know
that genuine ether (ethyl-ether) varies in required specific
gravities from 0.750 to 0.720. These specific gravities vary
according to the amount of alcohol — or alcohol and water —
since water itself is not sufficiently soluble in ether (or vice
versa, according to some) to make the difference. -Now,
the ether in question of sp. gr. 0.735 certainly contains
more than three times the maximum amount of alcohol
permitted in Cape Colony for non-dutiability ; in fact, 11 per
cent, at least of proof spirit. Assuming a stronger spirit
is employed, much more alcohol may be mixed. Squibb's
tables have never been upset, and they show that for
mixtures of ether sp. gr. 0.7189 with alcohol 0.8201, at
sp. gr. 0.7354 ether contains 13 per cent, of the latter. The
remedy should be simple — namely, a statement of the facts
to the Cape Colony Customs authorities by exporters and
importers conjointly.
Yours truly,
Thomas Tyrer & Co., Ltd.
Is the Minor "Worth the Trouble ?
Sir, — The impatient correspondent who declares that it
is not, since it is possible to get as good a living without it,
may be right from his own point of view ; but in that case
it may be suggested that he is out of place in a calling which
presupposes something more than mere business smartness
in its followers. I do not, indeed, know of any business in
which a degree of knowledge over and above the minimum
required to enable a man to carry it on is not an advantage,
even from a strictly business point of view ; certainly it is
so in ours. A pharmacist cannot easily know too much,
though a good deal of what he knows may sometimes seem
to bring him little direct profit. One of the most important
factors in any business is position. Your correspondent
will admit this of geographical position, and it is equally
true in other respects. In pharmacy the superior position
which a legal certificate of qualification gives is an immense
advantage, and the further advantage of an education above
the ordinary is not to be despised. I agree with your corre-
spondent as to the convenience of dividing the drug-trade
in England as it is divided in the sister isle ; but if this
were done I should still choose to be in the position of top
dog, even if I got no more bones by being so. For after
all we do not live for money-gain alone. Granted a suffi-
ciency to ensure freedom from sordid care, the man who
is and feels himself to be really master of his business,
armed at all points and capable to the full extent of his
opportunities, is more to be envied than the man of inferior
acquirements who makes a few pounds more per annum
in a more or less irregular way. Examinations do not
necessarily give us the advantages of education and ability,
but they do ensure a certain position ; and as the law stands,
it is impossible for a self-respecting man to carry on business
in the drug-trade without previously passing them. The
pity is that the necessity of passing them makes the doing
so appear to many people an end in itself — and the only
end. While this is so they will only in comparatively rare
cases, and by a sort of side-wind, be really educative.
Yours faithfully,
Minor Man. (49/32.)
Sir, — In answer to " Perplexed," I emphatically say
" No," and I think my opinion is of some value, as I have
had twenty years' experience as a drug-store proprietor,
and have succeeded beyond all expectations. The average
chemist's business consists in handing over the eounter a
great variety of packed goods, proprietary articles, and a
thousand and one things that require no special skill, apart
from neatness in turning out the goods and civility in
dealing with customers. The place for the highly skilled
chemist is the laboratory, where he can turn to advantage
and profit his technical knowledge and training. As a
matter of fact, the finished article that is turned out from
Bloomsbury Square to-day is sadly too good for the ordinary
counter work of a chemist's shop. He is like a fish out of
water ; his environment is not conducive to good temper ;
and are we to be surprised when we hear that so many of
these good men are dissatisfied with their shop experience ?
The Major pharmacist, with his optical qualifications and
superior education, is engaged all the day long in a class
of work that is ideal for a drug-store man, but nothing less
than outrageous for highly trained pharmacists. The
drug-store man who has served an apprenticeship in an
ordinary chemist's sho23 is supremely happy when he owns a
small well-stocked store. He does not bother his head
about the loss in sales of a few pennyworths of laudanum
and other poisons ; he is too busy in making friends and
money, and I venture to say for the majority of drug-store
proprietors, succeeds in both. It is astonishing in these
days how very seldom scheduled poisons are asked for in
drug-stores. The public appear to understand that poisons
are not to be obtained in that class of shops. The increas-
ing demand for packed goods, and the fashion for side-lines,
render it quite easy for a drug-store man to make a good
living, providing he can command a little capital at the
start. I would recommend " Perplexed " to make himself
familiar with drugs and chemicals and the general routine
of a chemist's business, and then commence a drug-store,
with a determination not only to succeed, but in no
circumstances to infringe the Pharmacy Act.
Cascara Sagrada. (35/26.)-
" Ungrammatical " Speech.
Sir, — I was much interested in " Cosmologist's " letter
in your issueof September 24, headed " The Split Infinitive
and other Things." I thoroughly agree with him that " it
is not the stylists, but the common people, who make the
grammar of a country." Just as we have practically ceased
to employ the second person singular in ordinary conversa-
tion, soi also are many other words and constructions falling
into disuse; for instance, how often is the subjunctive
mood used nowadays ? Do not nine persons out of ten
say, " If that is so," instead of " If that be so" ! Then,
in the last line of the vesper hymn, " Till morning light
appears" should really grammatically be "Till morning light
appear" (if we change "all our fears" in the second line
into "every fear," the rhyme is preserved). Again, how
many so-called "educated" people, after knocking at
the door of a room for admittance and hearing the question
"Who is there?" will reply "It's me"! How often do
we hear such a sentence as " he is older than me " ! I there-
fore contend that these cases of so-called ungrammatical
use of certain words should really be justified, in that
the greater percentage of persons employ them in this
manner in conversation; but, in suggesting this, perhaps
I am treading on dangerous ground. In my opinion we
are rapidly beginning to feel the necessity of having a com-
mittee for the standardisation of the English language,
similar to those existing in Germany and in one or two
other countries. Yours faithfully,
Grammar. (48/40.)
Subscribers' Symposium.
(Information Solicited or Supplied.)
Like Wine.
" The C. & D. is fine value. Like wine, it improves with
age," writes a subscriber when sending his 10s. (221/4.)
Pharmacy in Excclsis?
A Midland Chemist writes : " What is pharmacy coming to
locally ? Within the last few days two drug-stores have been
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advertised in the ' Birmingham Mail ' — (1) fixtures and
stock 5^., (2) fixtures and stock 15?. The returns and profits
are not mentioned."
Coloured Carboys.
F. N. (51/53) wants the latest information regarding colours
for carboys — namely, green, red, and blue. There is a good
ideal of information about these in " Pharmaceutical For-
mulas," but we shall be glad to have anything fresh from our
readers.
Why do Powders Stick to Bottles?
T recently had occasion to change the gold label of a shop-
round that for several years had been used for pulv. curcumee.
The inside of the bottle was coated with the yellow powder.
On scraping off the gold label I was surprised to find that no
powder at all had adhered to the inner surface which the
label had covered. I wonder whether any of your corre-
spondents can explain why ? — C. L. (52/29.)
Salad-dressing.
Salt
... 1
oz.
Mustard
2
oz.
"Eggs _ ...
... 8
Nestle's milk (6d. tins) ...
... 2
Lucca oil
... 16
oz.
Vinegar
... 30
oz.
Mix in order as written.
T note that " A. G. L." requires a recipe for a good salad-
dressing. I can recommend the above with confidence, as I
have tried many formula?, and find this far the best.. It keeps
-almost indefinitely. — A. H. Cartwright.
A C 'ompetition Ode.
Competition day by day,
•Competition all the way ;
Competitions by the score,
Competition more and more ;
'Competition for the prizes,
Competitions of all sizes;
'Competition in our trade,
Competition to our aid ;
■Competition to be seen,
'Competition sharp and keen ;
Competition with the stores,
Competition one abhors ;
Competition everywhere,
But I read the C. & D., so I don't care.
A. J. H. (213/5.)
Dispensing Notes.
Most dispensing problems are dealt with in "The Art of Dis-
pensing," but we are always pleased to get fre;h ones for
solution, and to receive the opinions of readers on the points
.discussed.
Lanoline Lotion.
Apprentice (50/12) suggests that " B. M. J.'s " difficulty is
■not a difficulty at all, and that the prescriber meant an oint-
ment, with the distilled water to dissolve the salts and there-
after to be mixed with an ounce of lanoline.
Butyl-chloral and Camphor.
Sir, — I am rather surprised to find no specific reference to
" butyl-chloral hydrate in combination with camphor " in
the usual text-books. E.g., the following recipe is brought in
with a request to have the pills as soon as possible :
Butyl-chloral hydr gr. ij.
Camphor. ... ... ... ... gr. j.
Ext. gelsem. ale gr. 3
Ft. pil. Mitte xij.
I should like to know how your readers would tackle this.
I have made them several times, and my experience is as
follows : Massed with a very small quantity of tragacanth
and glycerin excipient, the pills were very good to look at,
being quite firm. In twelve hours or less they were in a semi-
fluid state, when they were again massed with simple
liquorice-powder. The second lot was worked up in the
mortar with a drop or two of S. V.R. with the idea of hastening
the change ; but as no change was forthcoming, a mass was
again made with tragacanth-paste. This time the pills stood
well, though very hygroscopic for several days. In both
cases the pills dry after a few days, and disintegrate readily
in warm water ; but those made with a little S.V.R. and
tragacanth-paste are decidedly the better.
I am, etc.,
Midland. (52/51).
Legal Queries.
Consult tllS legal information in " The Chemists' and Druggists'
Diary," 1910, before writing about your difficulty.
It. (53/44).— By Section 3 of the Dentists Act, legally quali-
fied medical practitioners may practise as dentists and de-
scribe themselves as such.
Galen (52/42). — The minimum rate for wine-licences is
21. 10s. The assessment depends upon the rental, and not
upon the stock carried by the chemist.
Herb (53/25). — Homoeopathic pilules or tinctures of aconite,
arsenic, belladonna, nux vomica, or any other scheduled
poison come within the Acts subject to the ruling " De mini-
mus non curat lex." Whether that applies in homoeopathic
medicines we do not know.
S. C. S. (49/9). — Registered chemists may describe their
shops as " Pharmacy." The object of the case which you
have in mind was to restrict the use of the word to the shops
of pharmaceutical chemists; but the High Court decided
against that, and thus made the word free to everybody.
Maximo (221/4). — (1) Ammonium sulphocyanide is not a
scheduled poison in Great Britain. (2) There has been a
conviction under Section 15 of the Pharmacy Act of a person
who supplied a customer with a scheduled poison and did not
charge for it. The offence is selling or retailing, etc., and
giving away poison appears to be retailing. (3) None but a
registered chemist or company may lawfully use the title
" Druggist " on a retail shop.
Kim (211/27). — Wherever the title "Chemist" is used or
exhibited in a retail shop, the owner of the shop, if an
individual, must be a registered chemist and must per-
sonally superintend it or employ a registered chemist to do
so. If poisons are sold in the shop, it is " kept open
for the sale of poisons " within the meaning of the 1868 Act,
and must be personally managed by the proprietor or a
registered chemist. The proprietor may only manage one
shop. If he has a branch of the business at another shop, he
can only carry it on with a qualified assistant.
A. B. C. (50/60).— (1) The interest on an overdraft from the
bank should be entered in the income-tax return as a charge
upon the profits of the business. If this has not been done
when the notice of assessment is received, write to the sur-
veyor of taxes about it within ten days of the receipt of the
notice. (2) Samples of patent medicines may not be sold at
bazaars unstamped nor without a licence ; so what is the good
of bothering the manufacturers? (3) Metropolitan banks
generally require a minimum balance of 501. on current
accounts, or charge an annual fee. In opening accounts, tho
recommendations of two persons are required.
Miscellaneous Inquiries.
As we co not in this section repeat information given during tn«
past twelve months, inquirers should refer to the copies
mentioned. Back numbers for the past five years can generally
be obtained from our office at the published prices.
W. W. (44/4).— Cod-liver Oil Emulsion.— For the 50-per:
cent, emulsion in which Irish-moss mucilage is used the
following method is employed :
Irish moss 3j.
Water ... ... 3vj.
Soak for an hour, then boil for half an hour ; make up to
5 oz. and strain. Add —
Glycerin 3ij.
Rectified spirit 3j.
Essential oil of almonds my._
Cinnamon oil rriii j.
The product is then mixed with an equal amount of cod-
liver oil, and the emulsion made by means of an egg-whisk
geared to make 1,200 revolutions a minute.
/. 0. (25/64).— (1) Tooth-powder.— The basis of this is pre-
cipitated chalk with some powdered soap, but the outstanding
feature of the powder is the perfume — a mixture of menthol
and wintergreen oil. (2) Quinine Pessaries.— These contain
from 3 to 5 grains of quinine hydrochloride in cocoa-butter,
the size being usually 60 grains.
J. Y. Z. (13/10). — The Veterinary Liquid used for inflam-
matory diseases contains Iiq. ammon. acet., a veterinary form
of sp. ammon. arom., and a red colouring-matter. You did
not give us sufficient details of the sample to encourage us to
investigate it further.
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A. T. B. (42/40).— Pig-powders.— The following formula is
based on an examination of your sample :
Pulv. potass, nitratis .sviij.
Pulv. curcumse Sviij.
Pulv. anisi Svj.
Pulv. fcenugreeci 5x. ,
Pulv. glycyrrh 3viij.
Dose : From one dessertspoonful to a tablespoonful.
Butch Pink (35/32).— The " Petrifying " liquid used for
adding to distemper seems to be a linseed-oil emulsion made
with caseia.
Cheshire (45/13). — Metol-Quinol Developer. — The diluted
developer does not keep. Any preservative, such as sodium
sulphite or potassium metasulphite, would need to be added
in an amount which would interfere with the developing
properties of the solution.
E. M. P. (26/1).— Nasal Sphat:
Creosote 5 minims
Eucalyptus oil ^ 15 minims
Terebene 10 minims
Menthol ... ... 10 grains
Cinnamon oil 5 minims
Liquid paraffin to 1 oz.
Mix. Use with an atomiser.
O. P. E. (34/71). — Embroidery-pattern Mabker. — This is a
mixture of powdered resin, ultramarine, and starch. The
purpose of the resin is to fix the pattern when a hot iron is
passed over the powder that has escaped through the per-
forated pattern.
W. P. (29/29).— Essence of Coffee.— The following is from
" Pharmaceutical Formulas " :
Freshly roasted and ground coffee 2 lb.
Freshly roasted and ground
chicory 2 lb.
Boiling water 1 gal.
Mix, cover and keep warm for two hours, strain, press, and
add 20 gr. of salicylic acid to the liquor, which set aside.
Reinfuse the marc in a gallon of boiling water for an hour,
press and strain. Evaporate this liquor to make 6 pints with
the reserve. Dissolve in it 4 lb. of sugar. If the coffee and
chicory were not highly roasted, the colour of the essence
may be darkened by adding caramel.
Nemo (30/69). — Silver-polishing Paste. — A mixture .of
jewellers' rouge and vaseline would represent your sample.
The rouge must be of the finest quality for silver-cleaning,
and the grinding with vaseline must be complete.
F. c£ C. (24/69).— (1) There is no chemical method of pre-
venting ice from melting. (2) Depilatory. — See C. & Z>.,
September 24, p. 497.
C. & Co. (38/54). — Book on Jam-making. — We do not think
there is any book published devoted to this subject. It is
dealt with in cookery-books and in Skuse's " Complete Con-
fectioner " (W. J. Bush & Co., Ltd., 7s. 6d.).
Dr. B. (Toulouse) (15/1).— There is no book in the English
language on physics as applied to pharmacy.
W. H. L. (37/26).—Duplicator Ink.— The following is the
type of ink which is intended by this title :
Methyl green 4 parts
Distilled water 10 parts
Acetic acid 10 parts
Alcohol 10 parts
Glycerin 70 parts
Mix.
Nemo (38/44). — Lavender-water. — Ypu should read the
remarks on lavender-water given in " Pharmaceutical
Formulas," in which the following points are noted :
Use well-matured English oil of lavender — five years
old at least
The simplest lavender-waters are the best.
Ambergris or civet or musk is essential for bringing out
the fine odour of lavender.
Keep the water as long as possible before filtering — using
dry grey paper only.
Aq. Lavand. (51/72). — These observations solve your diffi-
culty. A little ambergris, as well as musk, is an advantage.
W. O. (39/30). — (1) The tasteless cayenne pepper used as a
colour-feed for canaries is proEably a selected sample — they
vary considerably. (2) The seltzogene-leak could be mended
by pouring in some plaster of Paris mixed with water to the
consistency of a thick cream.
G. M. W. (25/14). — We do not know the composition of the
two proprietary articles you mention.
/. 0. 0. (29/18). — The Window-cleaning Preparation is
perhaps whiting and ammonia, but your inquiry does not
give sufficient details.
Out is (45/22). — Removing Tattoo-marks. — Of the several
methods of doing this the salicylic-acid one is most recent.
It was described in the C. & D., September 28, 1907, p. 515.
Other processes are with tannin and silver nitrate (C. & D.,
July 28, 1906, p. 195), with nitric acid (" Pharmaceutical
Formulas," p. 527), and glycerin of papain (C. & D., April 8,
1899, p. 575).
J. H. (23/13). — The residue left after pressing out the oil
from coconut kernels is sold for cattle-feeding, but the desic-
cated coconut used in cooking and confectionery is prepared
by drying the cut-up kernels without previously extracting
the oil.
B. B. (Calcutta) (43/7).— Books on Agriculture and Horti-
culture.— Consult the indices of the last few volumes of the
C. & D.
C. G. B. (39/11). — Skin-cream. — This appears to be one of
the casein-creams about which full particulars were given in
a series of four articles in this Journal during April 1909.
L. W. J. (210/30).— Liquid Laundry-blue:
1. Prussian blue 5 lb.
Oxalic acid 1 oz.
Water 2 gals.
Mix the Prussian blue and acid with 5 gal. of boiling water,
and when cold make up to volume and strain.
2. Aniline blue 4 oz.
Water 3 gals.
Dissolve.
T>. N. B. (Poona) (28/73).— (1) Book on Enamelling Iron.—
Griinwald's " Theory and Practice of Enamelling on Iron
and Steel" (Griffin," 1909). (2) Muspratt's Chemistry; the
English edition is out of print, but the German edition, by
Stohmann, Kerl and Bunte, in about eight volumes, is pub-
lished by Viewig & Son, Brunswick. (3) Seger's " Collected
Writings on Ceramics " is published by Scott, Greenwood &
Co. The book is in two volumes, 30s. each. The same pub-
lishers produce Bourry's " Treatise on Ceramic Industries "
(22s.). (4) Books on the Dairy.— See C. (£• D ., September 24,
p. 497. (5) Books on Horse and Cattle Breeding.— Hum-
frey's " Horse Breeding and Rearing in India " (Thacker,
Is.^bd.); Gilbey's "Horse-breeding in England and India"
(Vinton, 2s.): Shaw's "Animal-breeding" (Paul, 7s. 6(7.) ;
Sheldon and Long's " Best Breeds of British Stock "
(Thacker, 2s. 6d.) : " Complete Grazier and Farmer's and
Cattle-breeder's Assistant" (Lockwood, 31s. 6d.). (5) Scien-
tific Periodicals.—" Nature," dd. weekly (Macmillan) ;
"Science Abstracts" (Spon) : "Scientific American" (361
Broadway, New York). (6) Books on Dentistry.— See
C. & D., September 17, p. 460. (7) " The Chemist-Optician
(Office of The Chemist and Druggist, 4s.).
Lupuline (46/8).— It is not the purpose of this column to
furnish imitations of proprietary articles.
Patho (49/72).— Mercuric Iodide dissolves in solution of
potassium iodide because a soluble double salt is formed.
Potassium bromide is useless for this purpose.
Retrospect of Fifty Years Ago.
Reprints Irom "The Chemist and Druggist," October is, i860..
Dispensing for Doctors.
The following is quoted from a letter communicated to
" The Lancet " by " A Physician " : " Why is it that we haye>
no ' General Metropolitan Dispensing Company, with
branches in all parts of London, conducting dispensing busi-
ness only, and that in such a manner and at such a price as
would ensure success? Few of our already overworked
general practitioners would continue to dispense their own
drugs if they could have it done for them at a moderate rate.
And supposing such a company to charge Id., 6d., 9d., Is.,
etc , for each prescription, the actual cost of the manufacture
to exceed the next lower charge, I feel convinced not only
that the generality of medical men would support the under-
taking, but also, from the large amount of business that would
be done, that the shareholder would reap a very handsome
dividend. Stamps might be issued by the company, to be
affixed to t,ne prescription by the medical attendant, like our
postage labels, such prescription to be made once only free
of charge."
Index Folio 570
October S, 1910 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST SUPPLEMENT
xxxi
Exchange Column— Bargains.
TERMS.
Owe halfpenny per word with name and address. One penny per word if we register the address and attach a numbtr.
No Advertisement inserted for less than 6d.
FOR DISPOSAL.
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS.
MARTIN DALE'S Pharmacopoeia, 13th edition; what offers? 222/17,
Office of this Paper.
MARTIN DALE, 12th edition, gcod as new; what cffers? RoaiNsbN,
• Chemist, Exchange Station, Liverpool.
PRELIMINARY books, various, new condition ; 75 per cent, off pub-
lished prices; list sent. Taylor, c/o Gibbs, TTptcn-on-Severn.
DENTAL.
LEPPER'S branch practice chair; Parson-Shaw dental engine, with
R.A. attachment; Maw's plated tooth-forceps; all perfect and
in. good condition ; cheap ; correspondence invited. Griffiths,
Avenue Road, Swindon.
PROPRIETARY ARTICLES.
CASE 25 bottles Cowan's bitter waters; what offers? Hunt, Albert
Road, Stechford.
MALTO-PEPTONE ( Macquaire, Paris); offers wanted for about
1 cwt. Letters, " Mamo," 199 Kennington Road, S.E.
SHARES.
SHARES for Sale. See p. xxx.
SHARES. — 25 preference shares, guaranteed 6 per cent. ; what offers?
Claeke," Chemist, Surbiton Hill.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SIX lung bells; perfect condition; what offers? " G.," 261 London
Road, St. Leonards.
FOR disposal, 1 Kodak developing-box ; 10 Imper. plates ; 18 Hogyes'
socks. 224/2, Office of this Paper.
MAW'S water-bed, 72 by 36, only used once; cost £8 lCs. ; what
offers? Tonus, 280 Upper Richmond Road, Putney.
BALANCE, in glass case, cost £3 3s. recently, what offers? 8 oz.
santonine, 20«. ; 8 oz. salicine, Zs. Whiiehouse, Pharmacist,
Workington.
SOUTHALL'S materia-medica specimens, complete 2-guinea set;
Minor and Preliminary text-books, etc. Apply, Natlor, Hipper
Street, Chesterfie.ld.
TWO excellent life-like plaster models to advertise cough remedy;
first-rate window draw; 16s. each; seen by appointment.
" Chemist," 3 Soudan Road, Battersea.
LARGE handsome gilt outside mortar and pestle, for gas, with
3 red bull's eyes; 4 2-gal. pear carboys; about 10 doz. 26-oz.
syphons, no name, with boxes; what offers? Whitelaw, Cupar,
N.B.
MANUFACTURER'S Clearing Line.— 3 gross best Velpeau quality
crepe bandages, slightly defective manufacture, 4s. doz. assorted;
widths, 13 in. to 4 in., worth treble; samples stamp. 222/1, Office
of this Paper.
BAKER'S emulsion machine, 1J gal., equal to new, price 37s. (id. ;
Baker's sifting and mixing machine, 7s. td. ; screw tincture-
press, quart, 5s. td. ; plated bougie mould for 12, new, lCs. ;
Clark's Syphon gas stove, cost £4, price 30s. ; ebonised mahogany
sloping counter-case, 21 by 18 by 7, with 3 trays, 10?. ; 8 Ameri-
can automatic shading .pens, 8 marking ditto, with book on
showeard designing, 8s. 223/4, Office of this Paper.
WANTED.
IRON bins, with covers, for seeds. Price and size, DrCK, Chemist,
Cardiff.
TWO or three old-fashioned pear-shaped carboys, 4 to 4J ft. high.
38 Chandos Street, W.
12-FT. front counter-, 6-ft. dispensing counter. Particulars to H.
Logsdail, High Street, King's Lynn.
PEREIRA'S " Materia Medica," Quain's " Anatomy," 9th edition ;
must be in good condition. Wilson, Town Hall, Corbridge.
FOUR carboys, height about 30 in. to top of stoppers ; second-hand
dispensing-screen, counter complete. " R. B.," 268 Oxford Road,
. Reading.
"THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST," April 24, 1909 ; 4(7. offered for
clean, perfect copies sent flat {id. postage) to " S. B.," Office of
this Paper.
OPTICAL books ; Minor, Major, Chemists' books ; send prepaid for
valuation ; cash offers per return. Goweb, Bookseller, Waterloo,
Liverpool.
REQUIRED, cheap, 2 sets of 3 4-ft. glass shelves, bevelled edgc3,
4 standards and brackets for same, 5-6 high. Price to Sheard,
Morley.
TO BUYERS AND SELLERS.
We take every care to ensure that proprietary and other
goods advertised in this column.-a're genuine surplus stock
of reputable persons in business, and are compelled to
refuse advertisements sent by those who, when occasion
requires, decline to satisfy reasonable inquiries as to their
bona-fides.
We again call the attention of those who use this column
far the sale or purchase of goods to the desirability of using
our Deposit System. Some forward goods before they
receive money for them, and others forward money to
advertisers before they have even seen the goods. Dis-
appointment in such circumstances is bound to happen now
and then, and it is to prevent this, as well as to check fraud,
that our Deposit System was instituted.
The buyer sends us the money for the goods, and when we
hear from him that they are satisfactory, and not till then,
we hand over the money to the seller. A commission of
6d. is charged by us on any transaction of 3i. or less, and
Is. if above that amount. The commission is payable by
the buyer, and should be included in the money sent to us.
All Cheques and Postal Orders should be made payable to
" Edward Halse," and crossed " Martin's Bank, Ltd."
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST SUPPLEMENT
October 8, 1910
Coming Events*
This Section of the "C. & D." is reserved for advance notices
of meetings or other events which are sent to the Editor by-
Wednesday of the week before the meetings, etc., occur.
Monday, October 10.
Dublin Retail Drug Association, 67 Mount Street, Dublin, at
8 P.M. Annual meeting.
Tuesday, October 11.
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 17 Bloornsbury
Square,' London, W.C., at 8 p.m. First evening meeting.
Paper on " The Fixed Oils, Fats, and Waxes of the
British Pharmacopoeia," bv Mr. E. W. Lucas, F.I.C.,
F.C.S., and Mr. F. C. J. Bird.
Wednesday, October 12.
Chemists' and Druggists' Society of Ireland, Shaftesbury
Cafe, Belfast. Whist-drive, by invitation of the Presi-
dent, Mr. Wm. Haslett.
Manchester Pharmaceutical Association, Victoria Hotel,
Deansgate, Manchester, at 6.45 p.m. Dinner and smoking-
concert. Tickets (4s. 6d. each) from Mr. Jas. Grier, Hon.
Secretary, Pharmaceutical Department, University of
Manchester.
Neivcastle-on-Tyne Pharmacists' Association, Hotel Metro-
pole, Clayton Street West, Newcastle, at 8 p.m. Annual
meeting.
Thursday, October 13.
West Ham Association of Pharmacists, Earlham Hall,
Forest Gate, London, E., at 7.45 p.m. Whist-drive.
Tickets, including light refreshment' (single 2s. bd.,
double 4s. bd.), from Mr. J. E. Evans, Hon. Secretary,
69 Leytonstone Road, E.
The annual dinner of the Poi-tsmouth Pharmacists' Associa-
tion will be held on October 26. Messrs. Hobbs and Neather-
coat, pharmaceutical councillors, have promised to attend.
The annual dinner of the Bournemouth Pharmaceutical
Association will be held at the Gervis Hall Restaurant on
October 19. Tickets (5s. each) from Mr. W. A. Bingham,
Hon. Secretary, 58 Charminster Road.
Croydon and District Pharmacists' Association. — The
annual dinner will be held at the Cafe Monico, Piccadilly
Circus, London, W., on October 26, at 7.45 p.m. Tickets (5s.
each) may be had from the Hon. Secretaries (Mr. S. A. Noble,
Selsdon Road, South Croydon, and Mr. C. Dickinson,
119 South End).
The first meeting this session of the London Branch of the
National Union of Assistant Pharmacists will be held at the
St. James Tavern, Broadway, Westminster, London, S.W.,
on October 20, at 8.30 p.m. Mr. F. Bullen, 85 Lydhurst
Avenue, Streatham, S.W., is the Hon. Secretary.
At a meeting of the Western Chemists' Association, to be
held at the Restaurant Frascati, Oxford Street, London, W.,
on October 19, at 9 p.m., Mr. Edmund White, B.Sc, F.I.C.,
has promised to read a paper on his "Experiences at the
Tenth International Congress of Pharmacy," held at Brussels
recently.
At the opening meeting of the Glasgow and West of Scot-
land Chemists' Association, which will be held at the Regent
Tea Rooms, Glasgow, on October 20, Dr. Ralph Stockman,
Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow,
has consented to read an address. The arrangements for the
session are well in hand, and a syllabus of the meetings will
be issued in due course.
Trade-marks Applied For.
Objections to the registration of any of the undermentioned
applications must be stated on Form T.M. No. 7 (obtain-
able at Money Order Offices for £1) and lodged with
Mr. Temple Franks, Comptroller-General, Patents Office,
as Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
within one month of the dates mentioned.
The figures in parentheses refer to the classes in which the marks
are desired.
{From the " Trade-marks Journal," September 28, 1910.)
" Laccillia " ; for chemicals (1 and 3), and for food-substances
(42). By Aplin & Barrett, Ltd., Yeovil, Som. 326,167/8/9.
" Scout " ; for fly-catchers (2). By J. N. Dean, 42 High
Street, Stockport. 326,006.
" Maxsol " ; for disinfectants (2). Bv Maxsol, Ltd., 1 Garratt
Green, Tooting, London, S.W. 326,010. '
Picture of coach and four on scroll ; for hoof oil (2). By Lane
Bros., 77 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth, London,
S.E. 326,297.
"The Davins," and device of stag's head; for medicinal
chemicals (3), various goods (42). By Davies, Sons & Co.,
73-75 Bridge Street, Derby. 324,765, 324,767.
" Regyl," and label device ; for medicinal tablets (3). By G.
Fievet, 53 Rue Reaumur, Paris. 323,378.
" G™?A," '■ for a11 £°ods <3)- % J- Cockshutt and T.
Mitchell, 68 Highfield Street, Liverpool. 325,022.
" ^eurasthenol " ; for a medicine (3). By Charles Gordon,
2 Ellercroft Road, Bradford. 325,434.
" Adalin " ; for medicinal chemicals (3). By Bayer Co , Ltd
20 Booth Street, Manchester. 325,352.
"Droit Bath-salt"; for bath-salt (3). By Droit Bath-salt
Co., 10 Ferry Road, Teddington. 325,628.
Device; for pills and salves (3). By Mary Sharpe, 7 Bright.
Street, East Ardsley. 325,707.
" Rtjgona " ; for a gout-remedy (3). By W. A. Green, 15 Yar-
borough Road, Southsea. 325,791.
"Marathon," and picture of two runners; for medicinal
chemicals (3). By Faesett & Johnson, 86 Clerkenwell
Road, London, E.G. 325,842.
" Ai?tapsals "; for "asal inhalers and medicaments (3). By
W. M. Richards, 19 Horsefair Street, Leicester. 325,960.
" Covonia "; for a medicine (3). By S. T. Shaw, 73 James
Street, Golcar, near Huddersfield. 326,049.
" Brynola " ; for a medicinal preparation (3). By G. C.
Mares, 96 St. John Street, London, E.C. 326,111.
" Lavoris " ; for medicinal chemicals (3). By Lavoris Chemi-
cal Co., 8 North Sixth Street, Minnesota, U.S.A. 326,326.
" Ergoval " ; for a medicinal preparation (3). By James
Woolley, Sons & Co., Ltd., 12 Victoria Bridge Street,
Salford. 326,360. *
' Hirc," and facsimile signature; for all goods (3). By
J. T. M. Hircock, 116 Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook, Bir-
mingham. 326,379.
'Ducal"; for medicinal chemicals (3). By Erasmic Co.,
Ltd., Bank Quay, Warrington. 326,446.
' Bildsicht " ; for photographic apparatus (8). By F.
Levie, Oberstrasse 24, Hanover. 324,539.
Imperial Institute Reports.— Nos. 63 and 71 of the miscel-
laneous colonial reports are selected reports from the Scientific
and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute. Both
reports are of great value to merchants, brokers, and analysts,
since they collate a great deal information, much of which has
appeared from time to time in the Bulletin of the Imperial In-
stitute. No. 63 is Part II. of the Institute's reports, and treats
of gums and resins. (Part I., No. 58, dealt with fibres.) Under
gums, their uses, chemistry, .analysis, and -valuation are first
dealt with. Soluble gums and insoluble gums are treated
separately, the various grades being described, while par-
ticulars are given of the exports of different countries and of
the imports into Great Britain. The principal resins dealt
with are copal, damar, elem'i, and colophony. Part III.
(No. 71) relates to foodstuffs, and the principal feature is an
article on " Cyanogenesis in Plants," which deals exhaus-
tively with this phenomenon, which is of such import to those
interested in cattle-foods. Each of the reports contains over
200 pages, and an index adds to their value. They can be
purchased through any bookseller at 3£<2. each.
Brighton Association of Pharmacy.— The annual meet-
ing of the above Association was held at the A. B.C. rooms,
King's Road, Brighton, on September 29. The election of
officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : President,
Mr. W. H. Gibson, F.C.S. (for the eighteenth time in succes-
sion) ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. Black, Franklin, Padwick,
W. W. Savage, and Yates; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. J. R.
Gwatkin ; Hon. Secretary, Mr. C. E. Robinson; Assistant
Secretaries, Messrs. J. Plowright and G. B. Savage ;
Librarian, "Mr. C. S. Ashton. Committee : Messrs. C. A.
Blarney. R. A. Cripps, F. J. Flatman, H. R. Gwatkin, Guy
Hall, E. A'. Jones, J. K. Padwick, A. Plowright, and J.
Williamson. The reports of the Treasurer and Secretary and
Librarian were received and adopted. A discussion on the
Shop Hours Bill ensued without any definite result being
arrived at, and questions were also asked regarding the ad-
ministration of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act in the town as
regards the sale of agri-horticultural poisons. A letter was
read from the Secretary of the Croydon Association. The
members received with regret the news of the death of Mr.
E. Histed, one of the Association's early and staunch sup-
porters. A message of sympathy was sent to deceased's
relatives.
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